Quotes About Art

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.

Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.