Quotes About Art

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

My profession is called record production.

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star, then your reason of being in this profession is wrong. It amounts to abusing the art.

Acting is only my profession.

There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

I've discovered that being behind the camera is more fascinating. If I had to choose a profession today, it would have been something behind the camera.

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

I think dancing always took me to a different place. It was hard and it was a struggle, but it took me to the kind of place I wanted to live in. It wasn't real life.

Everybody does drag for different reasons.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.

I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.