Quotes About Art

Put more simply, they did not see art the way we do. They read art in a way we no longer can.

It was not just a matter of learning how to draw from nature the lights and shadows on each muscle, which is what Verrocchio and his fellow artists did. Rather, it was a matter of learning how to capture the effect of particle-filled air on the luminous forms of people's faces and their bodies.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

All music is beautiful.

Studios! You can't make picture with 'em, you can't make pictures without 'em.

Let Eros call the Muses, let the Muses bear Eros.

If sweet these songs are not, what profit more Have I to labour at them o'er and o'er?

May Love the Muses evermore invite, The Muses bring me Love! And to requite My passion may they give sweet song to me, Than which no sweeter remedy can be.

I'd like to be a painter most, I think. I never really sat down and said to myself, I'm going to be a poet. Never in my life. I'm still surprised that people think I am.

Embrace constraint. What you get in return is the art and craft of editing your own life, weeding out what is and isn't necessary.

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

Such music is not only a new art form but a new reason for living.

The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")

Io non intingo la penna in un calamaio, ma nella vita. Scrivere, non è vivere. È forse sopravvivere a se stessi.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.

To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say "I'm a writer" out loud.

In my Brain are studies & chambers fill'd with books & pictures of old, which I wrote & painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life.