Quotes About Art

Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.

Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.

I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.

Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.

I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.

Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime.

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

It is very difficult to make films like 'Madras Cafe' in India, given the diverse nature of the country.

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

My music divides people!

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.