Quotes About Art

I look at the feminine body as a piece of art.

I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.

I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

Burning Man is a crowning achievement of freedom in festival culture.

Festivals are quite difficult to me.

I want to play more festivals.

I am passionate about film festivals.

Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film.

Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

Bharatnatyam is defined in many ways and everyone has an opinion. But I see it as a consummate art - a kind of fifth Veda.

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

Figuring out how to scale the very human art of personalization is difficult, but I believe that it is also the key to building a lasting connection with customers for the long term.

But I think sometimes, coaching less is better. That's the art of coaching, figuring out with each kid what is the right way to approach it?

It may never happen, but I'd love to make a movie and not be rushed or concerned about shooting too much film. Probably a fantasy, but it would be nice. It would also be cool to fill a movie with all my favorite songs, but music is so damn expensive. We can't all be Cameron Crowe.

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.