Quotes About Art

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rhythmbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

It was thinner than a portrait painter in Constantinople...

La sabiduría es lo primero. ¡Adquiere sabiduría! Por sobre todas las cosas, adquiere discernimiento. Estima a la sabiduría, y ella te exaltará; abrázala, y ella te honrará; te pondrá en la cabeza una hermosa diadema; te obsequiará una bella corona. PROVERBIOS 4:7-9 Un cuidadoso estudio del libro de Proverbios revela que la sabiduría es el arte diligentemente adquirido para vivir con destreza.

sabiduría es el arte diligentemente adquirido para vivir con destreza.

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

People despise critics because people despise weakness, and criticism is the weakest thing you can do in writing. It is the written equivalent of air guitar—flurries of silent, sympathetic gestures with nothing at their heart but the memory of the music.

If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their parents; and to show that at least one daughter in every generation ought to remain unmarried, and raise the profession of auntship to a fine art.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

Now, as to what he's doing, let me say that the Doctor is at practice of the art of, ah, Pratantimancy – a discipline, you know, of his people.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing. "What colour's a blackbird?" she said. "Black" "Typical!

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.

All writing is lies. Good writing is lies skillfully told.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.