Quotes About Art

When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.