Quotes About Art

One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's a life-long learning process.

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully etched.

I am a thing of beauty.

I'm an aesthetic person who loves beauty.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

All my work begins with drawings.

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it's been actually an incredible joyride.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

I've learned ballet for seven years and Kathak and belly dancing for some time.

I think belly dancing is very sensuous.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.