A. R. Rahman Quotes

Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.

Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation.

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

I look for what needs to be done

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.