Quotes About Perspective

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.