Quotes About Art

I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

When it comes to making a song, whatever the beat tells me to do, I do.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

Anything that is related to my work will affect me. If someone tells me they didn't like my performance, it will affect me.

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

'RuPaul's Drag Race' is a show about love, art, passion, acceptance, and the quest for finding America's next drag superstar. No show on the telly box has more grit than these queens.

I have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don't find any difference.

I love doing Telugu films.

Music inflames temperament.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God.

For me, music is God and each song I make is an offering at the temple of music.

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion.

Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.