Quotes About Art

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.

We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.