Quotes About Art

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

Sometimes, I am lucky because all factors are combined - composition, light, emotion - and sometimes not. Most of the time, I must be patient and wait.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.

People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.