Quotes About Art

In life you need colors.

I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to paint a picture.

If we all painted the same way, what a boring world it would be.

I have always loved art and am an aspiring painter, and in early years when I was struggling to find a style, a wise teacher told me: "Just pick out an artist you like and copy him. You come to understand how he solved the problems you're struggling with and your own style will grow out of that in time.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

As a sculptor, Faffan had no choice but to depend almost entirely on prizes, grants and commissions, which made for a highly unreliable income.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

So there they stood, side by side, the better for me to compare them, an elderly gentleman and a young man, as thousands of cobalt-colored flies swooped in thousands of wild nosedives, their metallic wings and bodies embroidering an immense tableau vivant made up of constantly shifting curves and splashes like the flow of paint in those gigantic Jackson Pollocks.

as thousands of cobalt-colored flies swooped in thousands of wild nosedives, their metallic wings and bodies embroidering an immense tableau vivant made up of constantly shifting curves and splashes like the flow of paint in those gigantic Jackson Pollocks.

From outside comes the strident clamor of slogans over a loudspeaker and an accordion optimistically paints cheap color prints. And yet there is not a single flower on the laborers' table, not one little bouquet for the world to lean on.

A teardrop glittered like a diamond in the ring of her eye. When they're at the bottom, people fill their eyes with beautiful things. The world is full of art, it's just a matter of knowing how to look around you and then surrendering to inexhaustible whisperings, to small details, to longing and desire.

What you call extravagance is really comfort, pleasure and polish, which the lower orders learn from the aristocracy, and so grow civilised themselves. I have heard from very liberal people that there must be classes in society that cultivate science, art and refined manners — first, so that others may take living examples from them, and then to provide encouragement for noble actions.

Rock music is niche.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Songs are my prayer

Many can claim to love music, but very few, in my experience, can claim music loves them back

story that will sketch out the first U2 album, Boy, including its cover and final track, "Shadows and Tall Trees," which borrows its title from chapter 7 of the book:

Radar, his youngest brother, who appeared on the cover of two of U2's early albums, Boy and War.

Yeats got it. O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know--the music feels like it was already there.

The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.

Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

When I write, I write because a thing has to be done. I don't think a writer should meddle too much with his own work. He should let the work write itself.

Thanks to Azazel a man is able to practice arts and crafts and defend his home. Thanks to Azazel woman was transformed from a submissive bearer of children into an equal human being possessing the freedom to choose—whether to be ugly or beautiful, whether to be a mother or an Amazon, to live for the sake of her family or the whole of mankind.