Quotes About Art

The guitar saved me from a life of crime as a teenager.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

I went to an art school in high school and got in a little trouble like you do when you're a teenager and not being closely supervised. I did. I followed the Dead around, and it was fun. It was great. It was kind and sweet and lovely.

My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager trying to get away from the theatre.

For me, cinema is very important. I grew up with television; then, as a teenager, you discover cinema.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.

If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

I've had all my teeth replaced with solid gold replicas of the originals.

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it.

I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

You can make a whole album on your telephone, you can make an amazing video too!

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events.

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.