Quotes About Art

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Radio 3 shows such as 'Between the Ears' also make the kind of podcasts that draw the most from your noise-cancelling headphones. The programme commissions ideas that make adventurous use of sound.

My brain has been programmed to listen to music a certain way because of the Beatles.

Everyone is born with it but, unfortunately, our society and culture are programmed to kill creativity.

It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

Honestly, I always think it's cool when artists name their first album after themselves. It's confident it just means like this is me, this is my project, here you go.

I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.