Quotes About Art

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.

They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or people. They pursued the wondrous deed, the heroic gesture: fighting, fucking, drinking, art - poetry for intense emotion, the music that accompanied the heroic drinking with which each day ended, bewitching ornament for one's person and possessions.

Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

know a Work of Art from a Daub of Artifice)

Japanese culture is something I'm heavily inspired by. I was actually stationed for a few years in Japan with the Navy and I fell in love with a lot of that culture, especially when it comes to fashion and art.

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

The stage is near and dear to me.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.