Quotes About Art

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

as to describe the impact of Francis on his era this way: " [His life] closed the reign of Byzantine art and of the thought of which it was the image. It is the end of dogmatism and authority. Uncertainty became permissible in some small measure. It marks a date in the history of the human conscience."3

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

aš niekada nefilmuoju ger? performans? ar intensyvaus gyvenimo aš filmuoju tik blogus performansus ir kasdieninio gyvenimo fragmentus su kuriais aš tada kuriu intensyv? nauj? gyvenim?.

I am in every image of this film, I am in every frame of this film.The only thing is: you have to know how to read these images. How? Didn't all those French guys tell you how to read the images? Yes, they told you. So, please, read these images and you'll be able to tell everything about me.

Miestuose per daug cemento ir bat?, batuk?. Kult?ra yra basose kojose.

Menas žmones ?skiepina. Jis juos pakei?ia, meno skiepais, iš šunobelies ? obel?.

I'm totally disinterested in politics.... Yes. I live outside of the political world. Because I have no control. Because all my interest is in cinema, and not even all of cinema.

Kult?ra yra basose kojose. Kult?ra yra šaltuos ryto rasos gintaruos. Ir arklio prunkštime. Neužmirškime savo arkli?!

En estos tiempos en los que todo el mundo ansía tener éxito y vender, yo quiero brindar por aquellos que sacrifican el éxito social por la búsqueda de lo invisible, de lo personal, cosas que no reportan dinero, ni pan, y que tampoco te hacen entrar en la historia contemporánea, en la historia del arte o en cualquier historia. Yo apuesto por el arte que hacemos los unos para los otros, como amigos.

The price of art is the destruction of a living tree.

Anything of a serious nature isn't "instant"—you can't "do" the Sistine Chapel in one hour. And who has time to listen to a Mahler symphony, for God's sake?

We're not trying to change the world just music.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)

I am a liberal, and liberalism is the politics of kindness. Liberals stand for tolerance, magnanimity, community spirit, the defense of the weak against the powerful, love of learning, freedom of belief, art and poetry, city life, the very things that make America worth dying for.50

There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

A painter paints pictures on canvas, but a musician paints pictures on silence.

Playing jazz is an art that is absorbed through intense listening, focused imitation, and fearless experimentation. The jazz masters learned on the bandstand. Literally.