Quotes About Art

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at paintings, allow yourself to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her, and love her.

Shogo. I know I'm repeating myself, but I have to say it. If I were Keiko, this is what I'd say. Please Live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music... Look at paintings at times to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her and love her.

We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can.

How can there be so much beauty in this world amid so much sorrow? The only solution was to create more beauty.

Though a picture tells a story, it may not reveal the truth.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Healing," said the poet, "is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.

Remember, your output is not a work of art; it's a work product designed to help the customer – whoever the customer is.

As a matter of fact, yes," I lie. "I love classical piano. Beethoven and, uh…those other guys." He cocks an eyebrow. "Name two pieces." "Um…'Piano Man' by Billy Joel." "Oh, God." "And 'Tiny Dancer' by Elton John." He grins suddenly, and his face, which is already too nice of a face, transforms into gorgeous.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad ' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

the way art can become, eventually, all we have of what was true.

Poems are not the transcription of experience but the transformation of experience."-Carl Phillips @CPhillipsPoet

Pictures, even beautifully drawn pictures, that do not properly relate to one another in a narrative sequence do not make good comics.

Drawings are the product of intense observation, not intellectual interpretation.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed; war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.