Complex Art Quotes

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

I like baroque things.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

When I saw 'Hamilton,' there was so much information so fast, I had to keep up with it. I find that quality in art exhilarating.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.