That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.
Art needs to stand for something.
I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.
As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
You can do a good movie, or you can do a good movie that can help people to feel the idea of what it is like to live. It can be good in an artificial way; it can be also a good movie for your own existence. You don't know that when you do a movie. You don't know if you succeeded, which is the most difficult thing.
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
