David Byrne Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

  David Byrne

  Art, Makeup, Brain

• The arts don't exist in isolation.

  David Byrne

  Art, Isolation

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.257, Canongate Books

• Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.

  David Byrne

  Art, Groups, Doe

  Source: pitchfork.com

• ...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

  David Byrne

  Art, Ideas, Useless

• It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

  David Byrne

  Art, Emotional, Ideas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

• We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

  David Byrne

  Breakup, Art, Creative

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books

• I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

  David Byrne

  Art, Believe, Bullshit

  "If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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