Quotes About Art

Life may imitate art – but it usually falls short of it.

Why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them anymore.

Theatre, at its best, is a candle that never goes out and all of these productions, along with many more, still burn in my memory.

She had quite possibly drifted into acting because of her father's connections in showbiz. It would have been that or some sort of PR or work in a posh Mayfair art gallery. I also remembered his divorce, which had been all over the papers. He had left his wife for a model not all that much older than his daughter.

an ornamental dagger

naked men and women

Alex glanced at Tom's work, which was huge, painted on six sheets of paper. It showed a terraced house, on fire with blood coming out of the windows, an ax buried in a wall, and an atomic explosion happening in the backyard. There were times when Alex worried about his friend.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

Some people feel that the purpose of cinema is entertainment - which in itself is a healthy enough goal, provided you define what constitutes entertainment. But I come from a family where I grew up believing that cinema - art - should be used as an instrument for change and that's the kind of cinema I've largely done and been attracted to.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what's new depends only on who's listening.

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.

I don't think of my movies as provocative.

Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.

I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.

I come from a Punjab and a community that has taught me that art is meant to be challenging, infuriating and thought provoking.

I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.

Stars are a part of our emotional psyche, but audiences should also support a good indie film which may not have a big star.

I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'