Artistic Scope Quotes

The difference between me and, say, the opera critic is that I'm charged with thinking about the world beyond opera. I could go see 'Die Fledermaus', for instance. I've never done any of this, by the way. I've never written about one opera since I've had this job.

I've always had very catholic tastes.

I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

I make music for the whole world, not just one borough.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.

My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should be made. If you give an overdose of such films, the subject will become jaded.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space.

Art is not only about angst.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.