Quotes About Art

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

Raft Point is among the greatest examples of ancient indigenous art we know of.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

I save the rage for the stage.

Today I have learned how to channel my rage through fashion.

I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my interest in acting and movies and everything.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is my favorite movie, and it's why I wanted to be an actor.

A big moment for me came when 'Singin' in the Rain' came out. It hit me like a sledgehammer - that's what I wanted to do.

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

There's a scene in 'Singin' in the Rain' where this guy dances with a giant doll while singing 'Make 'Em Laugh.' I remember loving the pure physicality of it.

I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.

I watched a little 'Beyond the Black Rainbow.'

Colour can raise the dead.

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.