Quotes About Art

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

I draw a lot of inspiration from different time periods.

Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.

'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.

People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that's going to be there forever.