Itzhak Perlman Quotes

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.

I just like pictures and visuals and stuff.

I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.

What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.

I'm all about colors.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!

We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.