Quotes About Art

I was at Edinburgh doing history of art, Spanish and Arabic. I was originally supposed to do Italian instead of Arabic but when I went to see one of the lecturers they told me I should really do something more curveball. So I did.

I was an art history major and I really love art. I wanted to give them artist names. 'The Ninja Turtles' happen to have artist names as well and they work in both Spanish and English.

I do a lot of dance classes in my spare time. I'm a dancer at heart.

What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art.

Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

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

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am.

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't work.