Quotes About Art

Books are like that. Books just are. Sometimes books need to be, they need to exist and so they will body-snatch a writer and climb out through the writer's fingers and into the world where they belong to different people to different degrees and for different reasons.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe.

There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

The position of an art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.

Smugness was an art invented by the race of imps, no matter what cats might claim, so he did it very well indeed

In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed. . . . The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. What do we really know about the origin of the Universe? A blank so wide can be filled with myths and legends.

Nauka obja?nia ?wiat, ale pogodzi? z nim mo?e jedynie sztuka.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

A film is -or should be- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the motion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Mothering well is a prayerful art. —Lori McConnell, Restoring Hope in a Woman's Heart

Åžiir okumak aptalca. Okumak için deÄŸil yazmak için var ÅŸiir.

Lo so: non è la mia arte che è scandalosa, ma la mia vita. Non sono le opere, solo le vite degli artisti potranno d'ora in avanti essere scandalose.

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

Acting is in everything but the words.

Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips.