Quotes About Art

In this regard, I like to quote a favorite aphorism from Oxford art historian Edgar Wind: "Mediocrity which claims to be intense has a peculiarly repulsive effect.

The oppression of a minority- whether political, religious, or ethnic- has long borne an uncanny relation to the production of art of lasting value.

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.

I have adopted the perspective that healing must embody an art with a compelling and even poetic message.

There could be no picture making," the film director Orson Welles flatly declared, "without pastrami.

The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist's own humanity in the finished piece.

For those who would make art, the basic proposition is crystal clear: finding the work you are meant to do is the central challenge of artmaking — and making that work is the central challenge of life.

When it comes to making art, our intuition is often light-years ahead of our intellect.

Where, then, does your vision of the world reside? What part of your art is drawn from history? What part is prophecy? What part is grounded in fact? What part takes wing in fantasy? These are useful questions. Do you really want to leave it to outsiders and non-artists to make up your answers for you? Many

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.

Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

I feel like flamenco is part of this Latin music culture. It's from Spain, but flamenco has always been connected to Latinoamerica.

Spain's beautiful.

My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem like 'Howl', or 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath, I felt myself being moved - I wanted to do that for other people.

I speak some Spanish. I would love to go make a movie in Spanish. I'd love to be in an Almodovar movie or an Inarritu.

My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.

Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.

I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.