Quotes About Art

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

I used to dance professionally in Delhi.

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.