Quotes About Art

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Dirty Freds... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.

He didn't sing the language the way the French did, enjoying every word.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences...

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two.

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.

Glasgow is a magnificent city," said McAlpin. "Why do we hardly ever notice that?" "Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

It was the former ballet star Robert Helpmann who famously observed the problem with dancing naked: when you stop on the music, not all parts of your anatomy stop at the same time.

But without fallibility there is no art. And without art there is no truth.

Just because it came from the heart didn't make it good.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.