Quotes About Art

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Does one write under any other condition than being possessed by abjection, in an indefinite catharsis?

The work of art that insures the rebirth of its author and its reader or viewer is one that succeeds in integrating the artificial language it puts forward (ne style, new composition, surprising imagination) and the unnamed agitations [Émois] of an omnipotent self that ordinary social and linguistic usage always leave somewhat orphaned or plunged into mourning. Hence such a fiction, if it isn't an antidepressant, is at least, a survival, a resurrection.

When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray What charm can soothe her melancholy What art can wash her guilt away?

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

No concebía oficio más hermoso que el de sumergirse en los mares que forman las palabras.

El lienzo es del siglo XIII o XIV, entre 1260 y 1390, y lo dictaminaron tres laboratorios distintos. La probabilidad de error es del cinco por ciento. La Iglesia ha aceptado el juicio del carbono 14.

She looked down at her sketch pad. She'd been drawing a rabbit. She decided to give him unpleasant teeth. Vicious little bunny. Excellent.

this was poetry, this was music. This was love.

She enjoyed all of her names, and she was proud of every last one, but the one she liked best was Lottie. Lottie. It was the simplest of the bunch, but that wasn't why she liked it. Her tastes rarely ran to the simple, after all. She liked her wigs tall and her dresses grand and she was quite certain no one in her household appreciated the complexities of music or art as keenly as she did.

It took only a moment to realize that he put all of Michelangelo's statues to shame.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

I want to bring Indian music to the mainstream.

Raja Ravi Varma was one of the few Indians who not only understood women but also represented them exquisitely in a single dimension within four frames, infusing each painting with life through the use of color.

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.