It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly better state-of-the-art results on particular problems, and a little underappreciation...

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Songs, a while ago, became the medium through which I process most of the information that I receive and feel. But I go back and forth about whether this is all of life or whether you're missing...

Art Nouveau drew inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus drew inspiration from engineering.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of...

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his...

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of...

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Sometimes ideas come so quickly that I have to stop working on one song to start another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you...