Quotes About Art

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I mean, drag is a universal language.

Music don't have no color or no face. It's a universal language.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Music truly is the universal language.

Dance is a universal language which allows you to express yourself without words and I think that is why everyone is so enamoured by dance.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

Music connects all of us universally!

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

I realize we're not curing diseases with 'iCarly,' and we're not doing Shakespeare. It's not an Academy Award-winning film, but it has definitely touched people universally.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact that we were poor. They got me culture. They took me to museums. They showed art to me. They read to me. And my mother drove two hours a day to take me to University Elementary School.

I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn't really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.