Quotes About Art

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

I find it difficult to write with reference to the most memorable moments in film, when for me the best moments in films are truly irreducible.

I go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references.

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

We're expressing ourselves through references to anime and things like that, but SoundCloud music is just music that happens to be on SoundCloud.

At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often apes or references art. This referential, ersatz quality is why it's so fun to collect.

I love learning how people hear my music because everyone has different references.

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.

I've always had a good handle on drawing children.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.

Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

I think it's important to stay curious and see and experience as much as you can, whether it's art, performance, music, travel, or just hanging out and people-watching.

It's the only pawnshop I know that's got real Picassos hanging on the wall. I have Salvador Dalis on the wall. I have LeRoy Neimans.

With 'Hannibal,' I just really want people to feel something.

Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.

'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

I'm an artiste... I dance, I act, and I do a lot of things that's got to do with arts, and that's my space. I feel happiest in that space.