Quotes About Art

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.

Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.

I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me.

'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.

In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were laid. I think if it weren't for 'The Purge,' 'Get Out' wouldn't resonate as a mainstream movie. You push on the taste of the audience, in a way, get them used to something, and then you keep pushing on it.

On film and TV sets, they let you sit down. Theater is like pushing a boulder up a hill each night. It's a fun boulder, but it's a boulder.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

I put the cult in culture.

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

My music experience living in Baltimore was life-altering. To this day, there is no scene that works as hard or puts as much effort into their art.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

'Alemaari' is an experimental cinema of sorts. If audiences don't understand it, the film will fall flat.

It's not easy to tell a life story in two-and-a-half hours flat.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.