Quotes About Art

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.

We are a nation of film lovers, and films have often been a cultural glue that binds us all in a way that transcends geography.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It became my little diary I could refer to. I took little quotes out of the book and transferred them onto this scrapbook I kept about Amma.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Filming, for me, is a way of approaching, little by little - of getting closer and closer to my subject. And that subject itself can transform, or it can remain the same.

My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.