Quotes About Art

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.

One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not so frightening," she said, her eyes filled with terror.

I weep flowers, I weep song, I bleed

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.

I think the female form is so beautiful that I'm sure belly dance was created when a drummer watched a woman walking down the street. The sway of her hips was intoxicating and pulled the rhythm right out of the drum.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

If Van Gogh were walking around, everyone would run away because he had no ear, but if he was holding his paintings they would be nice to him. She's holding her paintings and she's good at it.

She had a kind of internal reserve, an astonishing capacity for self-comfort, and she handled solitude more effectively than almost anyone I knew. She could spend whole days by herself — painting, knitting, reading; losing herself in art and craft and intellect.

From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they want.

Draw, Antonio, draw, said Michelangelo to one of his apprentices. Draw and do not waste time.

a couple of fountains and four giant slabs of marble containing Roosevelt quotes. They're labeled "Nature," "Youth," "The State," and "Manhood." "They put those up in the '60s," says Tilly. "I think it was kind of a sexist decade." You

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I'm afraid that if I stop writing I'll stop thinking and start feeling.

Come voyeur my poems Feel free, I feel free.

We are training our minds to see the subtle shapes in the visual world around us. Shade

I now have three binders overflowing with the success of this program. My husband and I travel across the country teaching composite and forensic art to law enforcement agencies ranging from the FBI to two-person departments. Our students' sketches have identified such perpetrators as child killers, rapists, abductors, murderers, bank robbers, drug dealers and the largest serial arsonist in U.S. history.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting.