Quotes About Art

Anne burst out, "You know, I think I'd like to paint you." Michael said, "Oh, I say now, that would be lovely! He's so utterly Negro.

But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful"?

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.

Art is meant to provoke emotions, Avery. Its sole purpose is to arouse our senses, even if it disturbs. Even if it's ugly. Even if it fucking scares the living shit out of you.

Please! … You can't just walk away and leave me in this shithole!?" Gideon paused next to Lucan. "hold up. Did he just insult my work?" Fangs bared, he swung around and stalked back in front of the gleaming bars. "Fuck you, calling this a shithole. This entire cell is a bloody technological work of art, you ignorant wanker.

I saw her, and I knew I had to have her. On my canvas. In my bed. At my total mercy.

Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.

The little boy in me still believes everything is possible. Mom, you taught me this. And you lied. But so does art and so does hope.

Style, after all, is a kind of humor, Something truly beneath contempt...

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art. . . It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

can make paper cranes in my sleep

Art is a journey of the soul.

Art is the seeker and the sought, The dreamer and the dream, The traveler and the destination; Art is everything.

Autumn is the time when Nature takes her watercolor to the trees.

Every day, the sun paints the world in light— you can do the same."

Nature is a perfect studio.