Quotes About Art

You helped me with with that lullaby. I think I can help you with rock and roll.

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

and art instead of God, she often complained that she'd

And he would not see that the tints which he spread upon the canvas were drawn from the cheeks of her who sat beside him." Poe

Theology is prose, but liturgy is poetry.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version

La culture n'est pas un luxe, c'est une nécessité

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Art teaches us the things that reality can't. Teaches us to live with the things that seem beyond endurance. Missed chances. Failed love affairs. Suffering and death—the stuff of actual life.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

When art critics get together they talk about Content, Style, Trend and Meaning, but when painters get together they talk about where can you get the best turpentine.

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would use it for ill, in that world or this, then it will be upon you to destroy it—though its end means your own life-long exile." —Young Waeglim

Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you.

Color is gradually applied, or layered, dark to light (on a white or light-colored surface), building increasingly complex values, hues and textures. Although every colored pencil type works well with layering, harder pencils have a slight edge over the softer varieties because the points maintain their sharpness longer.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.