Quotes About Art

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

You have some great films every year, but for the most part, no one is making films with heavy messages or themes. People are afraid of doing that.

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.

Obviously, the 'Rocky' theme is one of the most recognizable themes in film.

I respect Malayalam films the same way I respect Bengali films. I think Malayalam films have not compromised on the essence and have kept their own statement and are coming up with very good themes.

I strongly believe film should create conversations around themes we are grappling with as a society.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.'

We're one of the only bands that get censored for theological commentary.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.