Quotes About Author

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.