Quotes About Art

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.

Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.

My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.

Live stage shows cannot be replaced.

I rep Peep, I have him in the middle of my face. It's not a replica tat, it's not something he had, it's my own thing.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'

When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it!

The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.

'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.