Will Sergeant Quotes

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

Stick to primary colors.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.