Culture
VULTURES
IT IS NOT HARD TO UNDERSTAND MODERN ART. IF IT HANGS ON A WALL IT’S A PAINTING, AND IF YOU CAN WALK AROUND IT IT’S A SCULPTURE.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
ART, LIKE MORALITY, CONSISTS OF DRAWING THE LINE SOMEWHERE.
Rules and models
DESTROY
GENIUS AND ART.
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
FINE ART IS THAT IN WHICH THE HAND, THE HEAD AND THE HEART OF MAN GO TOGETHER.
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry.
ANYTHING SIMPLE ALWAYS INTERESTS ME.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture — it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.
I KNOW NOT, SIR, WHETHER BACON WROTE THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, BUT IF HE DID NOT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT HE MISSED THE OPPORTUNITY OF HIS LIFE.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
LYING IN BED WOULD BE AN ALTOGETHER PERFECT AND SUPREME EXPERIENCE IF ONLY ONE HAD A COLOURED PENCIL LONG ENOUGH TO DRAW ON THE CEILING.
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.
WITHOUT TRADITION, ART IS A FLOCK OF SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD. WITHOUT INNOVATION, IT IS A CORPSE.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
WHEN LOVE AND SKILL WORK TOGETHER, EXPECT A MASTERPIECE.
The moral of film-making in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
I UNDERSTAND THE INVENTOR OF THE BAGPIPES WAS INSPIRED WHEN HE SAW A MAN CARRYING AN INDIGNANT, ASTHMATIC PIG UNDER HIS ARM. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MAN-MADE SOUND NEVER EQUALLED THE PURITY OF THE SOUND ACHIEVED BY THE PIG.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
THERE IS A CERTAIN DARKNESS, A LYRICAL DARKNESS, IN THE WELSH CHARACTER AND THAT IS VERY GOOD FOR CREATING ART.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.