Quotes About Art

I don't think band culture exists in India.

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down.... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.

Orson Welles used to say that Italy was full of actors—fifty million of them—almost all good. He claimed the few bad ones were on the stage, or the cinema screen.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Photography helps people to see.

Looking for art, the theme gets lost. Finding the theme is finding art.

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Art is an organized response to what nature allows us to glimpse occasionally. Art sets out to transform the potential recognition into an unceasing one.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

Why should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because, I believe, it increases our awareness of our own potentiality.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.

Our mistake has been to categorize things as art by considering certain phases of the process of creation. But logically this can make all man-made objects art. It is more useful to categorize art by what has become its social function. It functions as property.

He clashed his colors together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

There is no set time it takes to compose a song. They come easy sometimes, but more often they are stubborn, difficult things to drag out of the mind.

Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

To know the difference between erotica and pornography you must first know the difference between naked and nude.

She looks over at the Tate on the opposite side of the river, where she occasionally wanders the galleries to clear her head during lunchtime (when she takes one), to marvel at the ability of artists to make such mind-blowing creations out of their imagination Imagination What was that? Does she even have one?

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what--eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

In the theater it is better to have long arms, long rather than short: an actor with short arms can never make a fine gesture!