Quotes About Art

The art market is totally unregulated. Prices are arbitrary, quality control is virtually nonexistent, and most paintings change hands under conditions of total secrecy.

A man who is pleased with himself can be an adequate restorer but only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can be a truly great restorer. Luigi Conti

Or, as Durand liked to describe it, he managed the acquisition of paintings that were not technically for sale.

Most stolen art is gone forever.... The lone bit of good news is that the better the painting, the better the odds it will someday be found. – Edward Dolnick, The Rescue Artist

Indeed, there were more blank spots on the canvas than those covered with pigment. Gabriel effectively had to repaint the entire work, incorporating the small

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

James Agee and Flannery O'Connor have impacted on me hardest

From the wounded soul comes poetry and music. In return, music and poetry heals the soul.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Kad budu svi roktali svojim svinjskim srcima, poslednji koji ?e još gledati ljudskim o?ima i ose?ati ljudskim srcem bi?e oni kojima ne bejaše strano iskustvo umetnosti.

Otela mi je, Igore brate, moju sebi?nost, moje remekdelo!

Y no permita que la literatura, en su caso, sustituya al amor. La literatura también es peligrosa. La vida no se puede reemplazar con nada.

I don't want to make a tea set. I want to make crystal, as the wonderful Billy Wiseass would put it. That poor bastard has it good: he's never experienced love. It'll be easy for him to write a romance novel.

For he – and this is truly what Central European writers do – drags around a terrible burden of linguistic and musical melodies; he hauls a piano and a dead horse behind him, along with everything that has been played on that piano and everything that the horse once bore into battle and to defeat – marble statues and bronze bearded busts, pictures in baroque frames, words and melodies that nobody can understand outside that language.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get. In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned. So let it go. Release your ego's desire for perfection. Take risks. Stretch. Grow. Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

Remember: Writing is drawing.

Read this book when you are stuck. But don't read it instead of drawing.

look before you draw and believe what your eyes, not the rest of your head, tell you.