Quotes About Art

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

I sing, but I also like to write. Creativity is the best part because you're then in your own zone and can talk about whatever you want to talk about - it lets you be free.

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Laurie Anderson

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

The play's the thing.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art, of science, or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

The art of publicity is a black art.

The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

When words leave off, music begins.