Quotes About Perception

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

I come across as being arrogant and dismissive, even if that is not the case.

Rich, arrogant, lucky, mollycoddled and stupid. That's always people's preconception.

People think I'm tough and arrogant but I've got feelings.

I would never say I give less to Roma than I do to Arsenal; it is just that the emotion is different.

When I left Arsenal I never said I didn't like England. I was very young and my problems were all in my head.

Once you appreciate an art form, you're open to everything.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

I don't really know about the art world.

The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art. And we would all recognize it when it isn't.

If I read an article and believed everything a guy said about me, I'd believe I was the best person in the world or the worst person in the world, so I can't go off what some guy says about me. I only go off what happens to me.

If there's a group of articles written about me, I can usually tell the difference if someone's writing an article and they know me from someone who doesn't know me. They're usually very different.

I consider myself an articulate actor, and I don't consider myself a second-tier actor.

Artifice is art.

I am not an artist.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

I certainly don't get any pleasure from watching someone else dancing. That's weird. Why would anyone pay money to watch an adult dance? Just moving around in a rhythmical fashion. It's the worst medium for artistic expression.

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring when they hear it.

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.