Quotes About Art

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.

I started doing drag as a form of rebellion and expression and then I got attention and it snowballed.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

I was born with 'Aashiqui.' I am reborn on my birthday with 'Cabaret.'

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.

Songs, a while ago, became the medium through which I process most of the information that I receive and feel. But I go back and forth about whether this is all of life or whether you're missing something important in living and whether or not, as a humanist, you're abnegating a certain responsibility if this - this art - is just where you are.

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world.

You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby, it's a great feeling.

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

Receiver is an art - there is not one way to do it.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.