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Quotes About Art

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
~ Shirley Knight
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?
~ T. S. Eliot
Museums, I love museums.
~ Tony Randall
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
~ Virginia Woolf
What is beauty? It's what you love.
~ Yoko Ono
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
~ Ann Patchett
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
~ Antoine Fuqua
Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
~ Armand Assante
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
~ Baz Luhrmann
I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face.
~ Bo Burnham
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets.
~ David Sedaris
Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.
~ David Toop
I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
~ Ellie Goulding
I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.
~ Felicity Jones
I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.
~ Idina Menzel
I love music; it's my passion.
~ Ja Rule
Art forgery also provokes anxiety. Because art is a rare refuge from the mass-produced inauthenticity of the industrialized world, we are hypersensitive to any threat to the authenticity of art.
~ Jonathon Keats
art forgeries achieve what legitimate art accomplishes when legitimate art is most effective, provoking us to ask agitating questions about ourselves and our world.
~ Jonathon Keats
Still more beautiful were the intrigues of young Michelangelo. One day while still apprenticed to the Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, he was lent an old master drawing of a head to copy. He rendered it so precisely that, in the words of his first biographer, Ascanio Condivi, "when he returned the copy to the owner in place of the original, at first the owner did not detect the deception, but discovered it only when the boy was telling a friend of his and laughing about it.
~ Jonathon Keats
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
~ Joni Mitchell
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
~ Joni Mitchell