Quotes About Art

an artist is about condensing ideas into time.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

And in the end, children; Art prevailed over the cruel, dumb-fuckers.

I've always wanted to make movies.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

I want to make timeless movies.

I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.

Quotations are the backbone of much of literature, and of the transmission of art and thought more generally. . . . The delight is our natural response to the monuments of creativity and wisdom, kept alive by quotations, a communal bond uniting us with past culture and with other lovers of words and ideas in our own time.

The way you would draw a tree is different from the way anyone else would draw a tree—and that's the way it's supposed to be!

In order to express our sense of reality, we must use some kind of symbol: words or notes or shades of paint or television pictures or sculpted forms. None of those symbols or images can ever completely satisfy us because they can never be any more than what they are—a fragment of a reflection of what we feel reality to be.

Technology! How can any man who means to keep his sanity go far in such an art?

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don't have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Only that which cannot be expressed otherwise is worth expressing in music.

Muic is the outburst of the soul.