Quotes About Art

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

I don't thrive on misery myself. I mean, I've obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a place of joy.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.

Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama.

Bengaluru and art are synonymous to me. People here pursue an art form and make their living out of it - not many cities can boast that. Art in Bengaluru is thriving.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.

Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.

I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.