Quotes About Art

I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me.

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

You don't set out making a film that will rake in 100 crores; you just want to make a good film.

A director like Ram Gopal Varma brings out a different dimension in your performance.

I like watching a 'Ram Leela.' I like my dance and song.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.

For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.

It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about anything.

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the makeup range, it's just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.

I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art that only appeals to people in a certain age range.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.