Quotes About Art

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.

I put a lot of meaning into what will go on my skin and be there for all of my years of life.

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

I love doing movies that touch people's lives.

You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.

I love doing voice-over. It's so fun.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Jazz was my first love.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

The love of form is a love of endings.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.