Quotes About Art

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

The melody is the soul of all poetry and prose.

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

You can kill the poet but never his rhyme

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

Real love is observing another person and being observed by another person with complete attention...and all art is love, because all art is about looking closely

Ser artista es más complicado de lo que parece —Dijo Úrsula. -Ser cualquiera es más complicado de lo que parece —Dijo Paul.

Christ is, then, the perfect art work in the sense of that reality in whom is realised those goals that all artistic making has as its explicit or implicit ends. Because he is infinite meaning, life and being perfectly synthesised with finite form, the cave painters at Lascaux, or Hesiod penning his hymns, or Beethoven working on his last quartets, were all gesturing towards him though they realised it not.

The word photography itself means "drawing with light" in Greek.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

You don't want to get too caught up in this world." Tsunetaro's voice was stern, but his facial expression had relaxed perceptibly. "I've seen it a hundred times. You may start off as an impartial observer, but tattooing is like narcotics. You become fascinated, then addicted, and the next thing you know you're ruining your own skin with ink and dyes.

Taken one by one, you could certainly say that these leathery specimens were valid works of art. Unlike a gallery of paintings, though, the assembly of human skins created a surrealistic, unsettling atmosphere. Kenzo was staring at the otherworldly torsos in a trance, trying to imagine those desiccated, decorative skins wrapped around living human flesh.

Tattooing is definitely an art form," Kenzo said. "I do agree with you about that, and I've recently learned to appreciate the beauty of the art tattoo. But tell me, speaking not as a collector but strictly as a physician and a rational man, don't you think it's stupid to undergo so much pain and expend so much energy on self-mutilation? I mean, surely no one with an iota of common sense would ever do such a thing.

With a living canvas such as human skin, whether or not a tattoo artist could produce a work of art that satisfied him depended in great measure upon the subject. The ideal, of course, was pale, velvety, fine-grained skin without a single birthmark, scar, or blemish.

Even after a work-of-art tattoo was located, the problems were just beginning. The next obstacle in the collector's path was obtaining a contract for posthumous conveyance of the tattoo. The potential difficulty of this cannot be overemphasized, for people tend to be passionately attached to their own skins, even after death.

There are sometimes such human beings among film critics—the things they say they see are so far off the beam that you would think they were possessed by some kind of demon. I suppose nothing can be done about critics, but we can't have such people among film directors.

Within each film I have become one with many different kinds of people, and I have lived their lives. For this reason, in order to prepare for the making of a new film, it requires a tremendous effort to forget the people in the film that went before.