Quotes About Art

Besides makeup, my other passion is music.

Music says the things that people don't say or are afraid to say, and that's the best part about it for me.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

The best way to watch a film is to not know anything about the person who made it.

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

My best work happened on the stage.

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

Beyonce has a platform; what's a better way to speak on your platform than through your music?

I admit to a bias toward high culture.

There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

I'm a big fan of cel animation, I'm a big fan of computer animation, and, most of all, I'm a big fan of stop-motion animation.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I was always a big fan of 'Pippin' and 'Godspell,' even before I heard 'Meadowlark.'

I'm a big fan of Grimes.

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big fan of writing less than perfect things.

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.