Quotes About Art

Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself.

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

I did two years at art school in criticism and curatorial practice, but I dropped out because I was frustrated that there was this hierarchy where I couldn't do anything or ask questions.

For me, sampling is a high art. Most people don't see it that way, but it's a beautiful thing. I wouldn't know anything about music if it wasn't for samples.

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

I really consider acting a high art.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.