Quotes About Art

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.

I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around - the banister, you know, there's someone looking at you.

Music goes further than any border, any language.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

As film composers, what we essentially do is fusion.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

I am trying to gain as much knowledge as I can about singing.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at art.' They must be having some sort of other, unselfconscious experience.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came from that. I didn't read a book without pictures until I was 21.

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

I don't go digital. I was never good with technology. I didn't have a cellphone until I moved to New York. My gallery was like, 'What? How are we supposed to contact you?'

I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth of the one-tenth of the one-tenth. OK? Not just who's buying but who's really seriously engaged with art.

It shouldn't be that people think the National Gallery is just for middle-class white people.

I've always had this dream of doing an art gallery thing, and it was just finally, 'All right, let's do it.'

Filmmaking is a gamble.