Quotes About Art

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Art educates. That's why writers must know life. . .If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness may lag behind.

Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are the architects of human souls and the critics are the architects of the writer's souls.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods...

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

The triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble true birth.

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

I was filled with tenderness for all who would die, who lived without knowing why, and for the man who had appeared on the canvas. How

Tibetan thangka paintings and derive strength from their beauty.

A writer has to squelch his emotional reactions consciously in order to get enough distance to use them in his work as a writer.

Let us sacrifice to the Muses.

Poets tell many lies.

Stories are my art and my solace. They could also be my weapons. Stories give more than facts. Stories touch the conscience and stimulate action. That is my motive and my goal, to put research and study and feeling into that cauldron called the novel.

once upon an afternoon i became still-life i carried a balloon and a long black knife.)

i saw you vincent van gogh perched on those pennsylvania cornfields communing amid secret black bird societies. yes.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

It is the job of art to replace unhappy true stories with happier inventions.

He had the kind of handsome face that one rarely encountered apart from in works of art. His features might have been chiselled by a master craftsman. [...] Poirot wondered if McCrodden had sought to cancel out the advantages that nature had bestowed on him [...] by making himself look as repellent as possible.

El arte habla al alma y al corazón, más que a la mente.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Magick has been famously described, as "the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with will

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.