Lou Reed Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

  Lou Reed

  Art, Reality, Vanity

• I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Hurt, Wall

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.339, Da Capo Press

• Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Media, Bored

• The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Media, Age

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.292, Da Capo Press

• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

• I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Ego

• I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Modern, Choreography

  "Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a perfect day" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2003.

• I can concentrate on my art.

  Lou Reed

  Art, I Can

• I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

  Lou Reed

  Art, People, Creative

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