Quotes About Art

We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.

Islanders too are for sculpting.

Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless; whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass like daylight through the rod's eye or the nib's eye.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.