Quotes About People

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

Art changes people people change the world.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.