Quotes About Art

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

It's really nice to have hobbies that don't involve any sort of technology.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

Some of my favorite experiences of art are when I am there but my attention has wandered. I think stimulation is overrated, and persistent stimulation is exhausting. You sometimes have to be banal, tedious: make the rhythm go soft and slow, give the mind a rest.

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

I spent most of my teenage years in the National Theatre.

You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.