Quotes About Art

Bauhaus. And there were many other occasions when he praised the Bauhaus by name for having simplified and humanized the material objects of everyday living.

For Josef, the goal of art was to reveal new ways of seeing, "to open eyes.

Culture, of course, is an extremely vague word, covering everything from the shaping of hand-axes to corporate mission statements, as well as the finer appreciation of the sonnets of Shakespeare and the paintings of Hokusai;

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.

Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

La poesía no debía de ser objeto de análisis, pensó; debía inspirar sin motivo, emocionar sin intervención del entendimiento.

I've always believed that art and faith have much in common. Both allow people to explore the subtleties of their own emotions and to find their own answers to what the art represents to them. Your work and Trinity's always make me -think-, and more importantly, they make me -feel- in ways that often lead to a sense of wonder. Just like faith. [Mark Price, to Maggie Dawes]

There was something transporting about the act of creating something from nothing.

When I see you, my darling, in the morning before showers or in your studio covered with paint with your hair matted and tired eyes, I know that you are the most beautiful woman in the world.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana Azmi-Smita Patil art cinema mould.

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.

Thought is made in the mouth.

I love drawing Ryan Reynolds in his Deadpool costume. He looks amazing and is the true embodiment of the Merc with a Mouth!

My background is in dance, but as soon as I found acting and realized that I could entertain people, not just with my body but with what comes out of my mouth, I was into that.

That's what the best art does, it starts the conversation. What you may see in a scene or a line isn't what I might see, but that conversation we have, that's how we move forward.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

Most of the time, I never go back. I leave my brush mark and move on.

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

Sometimes I'm kind of cranky coming to see something. I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in L.A., saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on.