Quotes About Art

What is it?" Philip said. "I'm creating a work of confectionary art here." "Well

In "The Decay of Lying" Oscar Wilde asserts that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Pero es que la palabra «amor» pertenece a la esfera del arte, no a la de la ciencia. Cada persona puede describirlo con distintos términos y sentirlo a su manera. Por amor habrá quien llore y quien sonría. Quien se enfade y quien se ponga triste. Quien se excite y quien esté tan satisfecho que el amor le dé sueño.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Art is knowledge and the artist is wisdom."

The photo is black and white, but the imagination is in color.

What you do is not art. Said the one who doesn't know how to do anything.

There are so many colors in black and white.

I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?

As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.

I write because I love to play with language.

What no one tells you about having children is that it isn't tbe physical demand thry make in your life that affects your art, it's the emotional space they fill, crowding out your art. So even when you have the time to work, you're still mentally occupied.

She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it was something.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

And this is why I believe that ART is an important part of a well-rounded education, not as an alternative to STEM education, but as a fundamental part of it. I want us to start putting ART into STEM, to make STEAM.*

An egotism like an eggshell is a thing from which to escape; the art of life is that escape. The fundamental art of life is to recover the sense of that great self-forgetful continuous life from which we have individually budded off. Many people have done this through religion, which begins with a tremendous clamour to some saviour god or other to recognise us and ends in our recognition of him;

Ya?am sanat?n?n ödevi, ba?ar?l? bir hayata katk?da bulunmak ve insan? mutlu etmek de?il midir? Evet, k?smen öyledir ama ba?ar?s?z ve mutsuz olmak da vard?r insna hayat?nda. En az?ndan basitçe "def edemeyece?imiz" için vard?r. Ba?ar? zorunluluk de?ildir, ba?ar?s?zl?k hep bir ihtimaldir.

The Bayeux Tapestry is accepted as an authority on many details of life and the fine points of history in the eleventh century. For instance, the horses in those days had green legs, blue bodies, yellow manes, and red heads, while the people were all double-jointed and quite different from what we generally think of as human beings.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.