Quotes About Art

I've always loved interior design.

Art is about painting. All the rest is just a sideshow

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

In photography there is no meantime. There was just that moment and now there's this moment and in between there is nothing. Photography, in a way, is the negation of chronology.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

the song and dance musical comedies that prevailed in the 1920s and '30s and the integrated musicals that became more influential in the 1940s and '50s both allow a meaningful dramatic relationship between songs and their shows.

This may wel be rym dogerel.

Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.

Everything that I write is a kind of battle won—or lost—against silence and incoherence." —Geoffrey Hill

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do their best work in courtship, where the most important deals are made. We

Designed to be heard precisely in the order laid down, it [Anthology of American Folk Music compiled by Harry Smith] anticipated the sort of musical collage that would become perhaps the most widely practiced American art form: the personal mixtape of favorite songs.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

El simio más perfecto no puede dibujar un simio. Sólo el hombre puede hacerlo. Pero también sólo él lo considera una ventaja.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

The hand is thought of as the slave of action. But the slave of action is the master of expression.

Everything cannot be conveyed by ballet, only those things which can be shown on the stage.

There are no mothers-in-law in ballet.

My muse must come to me on union time.

There should not need to be a synopsis in the program. The movements and the music should express everything the audience needs to know.

If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?