Quotes About Art

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.

There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.