Abel Ferrara Quotes

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Modeling isn't boring.

Music inspires me.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.