Quotes About Art

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let's face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of "the starving artist" and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

In order to gain access to the right hemisphere, it is necessary to present the left hemisphere with a task that it will turn down.

By closing one eye, you removed binocular vision, the slight variance in images, called "binocular disparity," that occurs when we view an object with both eyes open. Binocular vision—sometimes called "depth perception"—allows us to see the world as three-dimensional. When you close one eye, the single image is two-dimensional—that is, it is flat, like a photograph, and therefore can be "copied" onto flat paper.

For the global skill of drawing, the basic component skills, as I have defined them, are: The perception of edges (seeing where one thing ends and another starts) The perception of spaces (seeing what lies beside and beyond) The perception of relationships (seeing in perspective and in proportion) The perception of lights and shadows (seeing things in degrees of values) The perception of the gestalt (seeing the whole and its parts)

Contour drawing, introduced as a teaching method by the revered art teacher Kimon Nicolaides in his 1941 book, The Natural Way to Draw, is still widely used by art teachers.

important key to learning to draw is learning how to set up conditions that allow this mental shift that enables you to see and draw.

Humoresque' by Alexander de Taeye. Ever

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

Realism, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

No piece of writing is ever finished. It's just due.

gray hair is gods graffiti

America is a commercial marketplace, and very few people are educated to understand artists or appreciate originality.

in high fashion - it's rarely an art, as most people don't have the taste, money, or time.

Anathomia by Mondino dei Liucci, c. 1493

This is when I let each girl in on secret: It can be yours. No different from falling in love with a song, one may fall in love with a work of art and claim it as one's own. Ownership does not come free. One must spend time with it; visit at different times of the day or evening; and bring to it one's full attention. The investment will be repaid as one discovers something new with each viewing... [...] Stay awhile. Spend some time with it. Give it a proper name: Yours.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

I believe everyone has this fuckin' poem in his heart.