Quotes About Art

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

I don't really have a favorite song. Music is such a big part of who I am, and speaks to so many different emotions inside me, that I don't have an all-time favorite.

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.