Quotes About Art

We write for the same reason that we walk , talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

13. "We survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets," (this page) Angelou says of Black people. Do you think that this is true of all cultures? 14. The book title is a reference to a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Why do you think that Angelou chose this title?

Great art belongs to all people, all the time—indeed it is made for the people by the people.

Easy reading is damn hard writing." —

One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.

Art." Dauntra nodded. "Sure. I can't believe a guy gets paid to show off his goods, and people call it art.

But the truth was for me, making the wrong choice had become an art.

If every person living strove to create something beautiful, mightn't we brighten the world enough so that all could see the path to peace?

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.

Judy dumped all the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and pastels she had on the floor. Stink grabbed the first blue marker he saw and started to draw. "What are you drawing?" "Bats," said Stink. "Blue bats." "You're bats," said Judy. "People don't like bats." "But bats eat millions of insects," said Stink. "People should like bats.

A picture is worth a thousand texts.

comprendí que la muerte puede ser, también,una larga conversación silenciosa con uno mismo, una múltiple sonoridad acuática, una profusión de monólogos propios y ajenos, eternos, repetidos, pero siempre originales. Como el arte. Y me sentí muy bien

all three Bardic Talents: the Gift, the Skill, and the Creativity.

Food, Ninette said into the silence, is a kind of art. Like all arts, it can be simple. or it can be complex, but one always knows when the artist who created it is great. And great art deserves respect and attention. She smiled. It goes without saying that our hostess is an artist in her own kitchen. Everything she makes is a as perfect as it can be.

Persistence can (sometimes) make things last but it doesn't always make things work. The muscle will harden wherever you give it exercise, but Endurance isn't always enough...Because Practice can make anything perfect ...even grief can become an art

As the figure moved before him he followed the muscles as they wove beneath the skin. he was not only fighting with an assailant who was awaiting for that split second in which to strike him dead, but he was stabbing at a masterpiece -- at sculpture that leapt and heaved, at a marvel of inky shadow and silver light. A great wave of nausea surged through him and his knife felt putrid in his hand. His body went on fighting

Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz! Words can be no more than a series of farts; or on the other hand they can be adamantine, obdurate, inviolable, stone upon stone.

I enjoy the fantastic and the sheer excitement of having a sheet of white paper and a pen in one's hand and no dictator on earth can say what word I put down – I put down what I want to put down.

He also knew when to stop. In the fine art of deceit and personal advancement as in any other calling this is the hallmark of the master.

Mervyn Peake

Of drawing forth a sun from my heart, and making of my burning thoughts a warm atmosphere.

You can live three days without bread – without poetry, never; and those of you who can say the contrary are mistaken; they are out of their minds.

Beatrix Potter

into a can. It would have been a beautiful thing