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"This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me."
"Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action."
"One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world."
"Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them."
"It's tough to make music and make it your own, and not have somebody call it something you don't agree with but can't control. Sometimes the press doesn't realize how much power they have and how they can shape somebody's life. I think there's a lot of people just trying to make music and get their art out there, and their heads get f**ked by the press calling them this or calling them that."
"We take our last look at the killing noise."
"Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns."
"I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it."
"I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death."
"When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else."
"Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not."
"There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience."
"I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work."
"I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art."
"Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living."
"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation."
"Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation."
"True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful."
"There is no patriotic art."
"A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator."
