Stephen Sprouse Quotes

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

Today, music is visual.

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

Michael Jackson, the 49ers and the Lakers - that's what I know about the '80s.

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

I'm obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.

'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.

John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid. I think you see that nowadays, in this postmodern context, there's much more use of different mediums in contemporary art. For me, if you're a creative person, you can choose to make a painting, you can choose to make a film.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

I loved Shaggy and Eminem.