Quotes About Art

When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

The only way you can make change is by moving someone, making them laugh, making them cry. But art has to be at the forefront of change.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

Film is forever.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

I felt that I was forgetting about all of the stresses when I was acting, and that's when I started thinking more seriously about acting.

Acting, for me, is a process of metamorphosis. It's about forgetting who I am and becoming someone entirely new.

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Defending is an art, everybody has forgotten it.

Form follows beauty.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

If you want to convey a message, you must do so in an enjoyable format.