Quotes About Art

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

I write a lot of sad songs!

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Until 'Lovecraft Country' feels like a show where people go, 'Is that how the world used to be?' we do need to talk about it and make art about it, because sadly, it's not history yet.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

Films are my life; I don't think there is anything that I would not do for the sake of the movie.

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema.

I like 'Salty Dog' by Procol Harum.

I love Sam Peckinpah.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.