Quotes About Art

That's what great art is supposed to do—help us to live in the spirit and die at peace.

We often say that life imitates art, but sometimes, art also infiltrates life. People watch a movie about a dramatic comeback (Rocky)

I'm glad i found photography. It's a way to connect with the world.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic

This job made it possible for you to stay home all day and draw pictures.

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss?

I drew the things of nature, leaves and berries, shore grasses and nuts and long fronds of fern. I drew a curlew perched at the end of a pier, and a cormorant with wings outstretched to catch the breeze. Drawing is a way to make sense of the world in my heart and mind. I speak through my drawing and sometimes I discover my own feelings that were hidden from me.

He made 'a new art of multilateral diplomacy,' adds Urquhart, by his skill, stamina, and resourcefulness: 'He gave a fresh dimension to the task of international service by the qualities of his mind and of his compassionate nature.

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic. [As quoted on WritersServices , 6 March 2012]

Writers are the engineers of the human souls

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

From the ashes of the studio system, a "New Hollywood" emerged, beginning with the 1967 release of Bonnie and Clyde. Mixing violence, sex, and art, Arthur Penn's $2.5 million film did more than signal a break with the Hollywood of Cary Grant, John Wayne, and Katharine Hepburn. It also brought in $50 million at the box office. And

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.

West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

The weakness of an art is its dogma. And when I'm competing against an individual from a different discipline, I try to find the dogma of that discipline. When I'm competing with someone within a discipline, I try to find their personal dogma.

The real art in learning takes place as we move beyond proficiency, when our work becomes an expression of our essence.

Leave New York or the poem will kill you.

In the end, and done correctly, writing's just another pathology.

If you want to tell the truth, write fiction

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.