Quotes About Art

Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.

I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.

You're demonstrating your own skills in a vulnerable way when you draw.

With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not your physical life, but it's everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

Of course you have to provide for the vulnerable and the children, but also, the vulnerable and the children need art in some form or another. You need spiritual experiences that, I think, forms of art give best.

Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking to master 'the art of the deal' learned the hard way that Trump held all the cards.

A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts.

To be a great creator, you have to be vulnerable. You're creating characters that have a little bit of yourself in them... And you want to know it's a safe environment for that.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

Make-up are the first people the actors go to on set every day - they see you at your most vulnerable. Then they paint the character on you, they're integral to that transformation. It's such an intimate art form that you develop a really close relationship with your make-up artist.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

They see me all the time at Bayreuth and think I only like Wagner's music, and it's not true.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

With these big Wagner pieces, if I haven't started three years before, I'm screwed. You need time to look at the piece again and again and again, and then, like some fantastic casserole or spaghetti sauce, put it back in the fridge and let the flavours get together.