Quotes About Art

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

I think all kids are creative, so I wouldn't say my kids are geniuses. But they immediately respond to music. And they've got great rhythm!

I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.

I love film, any kind of genre.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.

I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.

I think festivals have a responsibility to show different genres of music to people.

One can find a Punjabi song in all genres. I, as a singer, too, aim to sing all kind of songs.

I want to do films in different languages because I want to tell stories in different genres.

If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.