Quotes About Art

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Old Korn records had so much intensity.

Making records should be fun.

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home.

I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret about the lack of diversity in their curating departments, but is it any wonder?

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of art. I really like that idea.

Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film.