Quotes About Art

My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

I have four boys and two girls, and the girls, they typically want you to draw princesses, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, things like that.

King Princess is like an attitude. I take comfort in it as kind of a shield to exist in, where I can make cohesive art. And it's androgynous, which is intentional. It's important to me that my art exist in a kind of neutral space, genderless to some degree. And give the listener some imagery to hold on to.

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

People have drawn me, which is super cool. I'd love to print some out and put them on my wall.

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.