Quotes About Art

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment that's most often reflected in their work. Even if you're, you know, kind of a nature poet.

I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.

Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.

Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it.

Flamenco is the reflection of the street. It's that thing that's so beautiful, that comes directly from the people. It has so much truth, tragedy, falling in love, falling out of love, flamenco has it all. You can learn so much, that's why it's so incredible and so beautiful.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.

Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.

'Tragedy' and 'Loud City Song' are both inspired by stories from the past.

Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

Flamenco is dark - it's about tragedy and intensity.

Perhaps we could do without tragedy in art - but what about comedy? Is it a coincidence that so many of the best American humorists have been Jewish and African-American?

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.

It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.