Quotes About Art

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.

When I was at art school we used to make films, and we had a really very realistic manikin that we threw off a bridge, and a car nearly crashed. We all had to clear off really quickly.

Somebody got a tattoo of me. Kind of threw me off a little bit, but the work was amazing... It's definitely good to feel that love and support.

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.

It's really a rush and a thrill to feel you've been part of a body of music that's inspiring.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.

I enjoy painting. It's an incredible release of tension, and I feel very excited doing it. I squeeze out some wonderful red paint, and I get a thrill. My heart starts beating faster. It's almost a sensual thing working with these thick acrylic paints. I almost want to put my hands in.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

I am thrilled to be a part of Tamil cinema as it is an interesting place.

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

Thriller' reshaped sound. It reshaped everything.

My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many horror movies and thrillers.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

It's totally thrilling to direct.

Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.