Quotes About Art

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

He's very pretty. For a human." "He's very broken," said Magnus. "Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.

Painting for him, she had realized then, was neither a hobby nor just a way of earning a living. It was a passion and a compulsion. In a certain sense it was who he was. She envied him. She had never been passionate about anything in her life. She had never allowed herself to be. She had deliberately shunned any excess of feeling as ungenteel. It was almost as though she had feared passion and where it might lead her.