Quotes About Art

It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.

If I have extra money, I always love to support my friends who're making art.

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

I think singing it when it's done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

Nicolas Winding Refn

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

There was a whole sequence of concept art about a 'Fable' set in a kind of steampunk Victoriana age.

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

I need to distort not just leather and fabric, but also words. It's a disorder I have.

Polka dots are fabulous.

I had to find the courage to share not only myself but my art with the world. I faced fear, and I went for it. I wasn't a failure, and I'm very proud of myself.

I just love human emotion and faces.

On good days, I've done bubbles with as many as 38 faces - a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.

I mostly do faces and sounds. That's what I do. Comedy doesn't have to be art.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

I grew up in a world where music was a way of life, and I'm part of a family that in some facet or another, every single one of us has continued to live in that world.

I don't like drawing characters facing right.

When I'm facing an issue or a challenge sometimes, it's easier for me to avoid really facing that or dealing with it, and just go make films.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.