Quotes About Art

Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

We live and breathe words.

Hail, Muse! et cetera.

Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken. Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?

Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly

Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind and feelings of another. A work of art, therefore, is a fact of consciousness quite as much as it is an object existing beside us in the physical world and an event in the chronology of the historical past. A history of art is therefore a history of consciousness.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?

Wherefore with my utmost art I will sing thee, And the cream of all my heart I will bring thee.

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the artist's fame.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Full lasting is the song, though he,The singer, passes.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.