Quotes About Art

I suppose you're happy now you've got your statue." "It's a very special statue," I said. Only it wasn't really, at least not in and of itself. It depicted the ever-popular "Venus-Aphrodite surprised by a sculptor and struggling to cover her tits with one hand and keep her drape at waist height with the other" so beloved of art connoisseurs in the long weary days before the invention of internet porn.

You can't die of jazz," said Dr. Walid. "Can you?" I thought of Fats Navarro, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker who, when he died, was mistaken by a coroner for a man twice his real age. "You know," I said, "I think you'll find you can." Jazz

They're into something that is too big to be expressed through their clothes.

I accept that one day, my music will be gone forever. So will the Sistine Chapel, Bruce Lee movies, and all the silly arts and crafts my aunt ever bought. Gone with the wind. Making songs is something I do here and now. Because light captured is just a moment, a flicker.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

the bleakness of life takes many forms, and that none of those forms should be permitted to obscure the central mission, which is to record it honestly, powerfully, and continuously.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

Art is a contagious business. Perfectly normal and marvelously wholesome-minded people are as likely to succumb to it as anybody else. It is significant that the Purity League meeting in the city a few weeks ago discussed the dangers which lay in exposing even decent, law-abiding people to art, any kind of art.

Now she's caught between What to say and what she really means And I am finally colouring, Inside the lines that I live between

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

For a good poet's made, as well as born.

Give me a look, give me a face,That makes simplicity a grace;Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,Such sweet neglect more taketh meThan all the adulteries of art:They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

A good poet's made as well as born.

The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media," I said, meaninglessly.

I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn't get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the encounter with its three-dimensionality.

The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you'd forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we'd really touched. You must think I'm a lunatic. No, I think it's a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it's made and unmade.

Poetry isn't hard, it's impossible.

I wish all difficult poems were profound. Honk if you wish all difficult poems were profound.

Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.

Poetry": What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.