Quotes About Art

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

I am very fulfilled just dancing.

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.

An empty canvas is full.

I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

I'm definitely a fan of dance music. I guess we really call it 'dance' music because music seems to have become very functional. For years, people were trying to be everything. Now, musicians are becoming very specific.

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

I love theatre, but it is losing its value in Punjab. There are no funds or government back up.

Funk is part of who I am.

I would love to design a car. And shoes, like funky Keds maybe.

I first came across Dada at art school in the early 80s. It was funnier and more anarchic than anything else I discovered. And it didn't always have to make sense.