Artistic Reflection Quotes

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.

My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I have a lot of opinions. I express them in 'Mr. Show' very clearly, I think. I feel like both David Cross and I felt like that show reflected each of us pretty wholly.

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.