Quotes About Art

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, "Music.

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Rue,, la niña que, cuando le preguntas por lo que mas ama en el mundo, contesta que la musica, nada mas y nada menos.

Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life.

Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.

Don't worry. I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself.

One time, I spent three days mixing paint until I found the right shade for sunlight on white fur. You see, I kept thinking it was yellow. but it was much more than that. Layers of all sorts of color. One by one.

Peeta doesn't need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.

Dit is zeker geen goed moment om te zeggen dat ik een pop aan een strop heb gehangen en daar de naam van Seneca Crane op heb geschilderd? - Katniss

Don't worry. I always channel my emotions into my work.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

The stage is not the place to remind the audience that one is human. Illusion is what they are paying for.

Plie is the first thing you learn and the last thing you master.

This is what comes of making up conversations with frescoes, he chided himself, as he dropped to his knees and bowed his head. Nothing but trouble.

I'll go to church if you cut my hair tomorrow. But then you have to let me paint your portrait sometime." "You paint?" I'm honestly surprised. "I haven't in a long time," he says. "But I find you inspiring." "I'd be interested to see your work," I say. "Wait, you don't mean nude or anything, right?" He laughs. "No. You'll be fully clothed.

If literature is to survive, to gain back some of the power it has ceded to terrorists and newsmakers of all descriptions, it must become dangerous.

Nostalgia was diagnosed [as a medical illness] at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body internal and external well-being were treated together...Our progeny well might poeticize depression and see it as a global atmospheric condition, immune to treatment with Prozac.

Nostalgia was diagnosed at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body—internal and external well-being—were treated together. This was a diagnosis of a poetic science—and we should not smile condescendingly on the diligent Swiss doctors. Our progeny well might poeticize depression and see it as a metaphor for a global atmospheric condition, immune to treatment with Prozac.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.