Colin Hay - Best Quotes

Well my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me as well as being a real place it's a place where people go to find something – to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache and Australia has that as well.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Author: Colin Hay

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away you know?

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away you know? And for the last 20 years – you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again in a sense and that's what I've been doing.

Well my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me as well as being a real place it's a place where people go to find something – to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache and Australia has that as well.