Art Quotes

Art speaks to me through you but words have no ears.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I’m collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can’t look to one person – you couldn’t look to me, you couldn’t say, ‘Because Vin’s in it, it’s this or that.’ It’s really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

All of the young people – the artsy people, people who get overlooked because they’re weird or they don’t have hype around them – need to get some shine.