Quotes About Art

I'm not bad, Mr. Valiant. I'm just drawn that way.

So much, it would seem, for the music that would eventually be regarded as the first truly American art form.

The Color Creator Tool is a very interesting and powerful addition to the functions available to creative photographers. It presents you with a color circle, similar to what you see in many applications when you go to adjust the color of your font or background.

My drafting table, where I drew The Far Side for most of my career, faced a window that overlooked a beautiful garden; beyond the garden was a lake, and beyond the lake Mount Rainier rose majestically into the Washington sky. I worked at night.

Repetition sometimes works in poetry, but rarely in prose. The musical provocateur John Cage once wrote a lecture in which a single page was repeated fourteen times, with the refrain "If anybody is sleep let him go to sleep" (Cage, 1961). Midway through, the artist Jean Reynal stood up and screamed, "John, I dearly love you, but I can't bear another minute.

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well thought out, and those who aim at beautiful language, beauty of form. This contest may last a very long time; each side has a fifty-fifty chance. Only the poet can rightfully demand that verse be beautiful and nothing but.

a record has the human touch embedded in the grooves, the stamp of someone who once believed in it.

Not all music should be functional. Any culture, and all cultural levels, need music that challenges conventions and pushes the boundaries. To say that church music is a functional art does not mean that art music and popular music are superior or inferior to it. It means only that church music cannot be free art, an end in itself. "It is art brought to the cross, art which is dedicated to the service of God and the edifying of the church." 85

To say that church music is a functional art means, on the contrary, that it is composed, played, and sung " to serve the purposes of God , particularly in the church's expression of its worship, its fellowship, and its mission." 86

I take sounds and change them into words.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.