Tom Folsom Quotes

I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.

Filmmakers are always in a bubble; along with our crew or writer, we don't really get to socialize with other filmmakers, so the great thing about Sundance is you can see many other filmmakers doing the same thing you do.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

James Dean was always a tortured soul.

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.