Quotes About Art

You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

To him, all good things—trout as well as eternal salvation—come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Mio padre possedeva sicurezze incrollabili su certe faccende inerenti all'universo. Per lui, tutte le cose buone – dalle trote alla salute eterna – derivavano dalla grazia, e la grazia dall'arte, e l'arte non è una cosa facile.

all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

Jazz is orgasm, it is the music of orgasm, good orgasm and bad, and so it spoke across a nation, it had the communication of art even where it was watered, perverted, corrupted, and almost killed, it spoke in no matter what laundered popular way of instantaneous existential states to which some whites could respond, it was indeed a communication by art because it said, "I feel this, and now you do too.

One's own literary work was the only answer to the war in Vietnam.

Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.

Norman Vincent Peale

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.

They had met at the table d'hôte of an Eighth Street Delmonico's, and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted.

We were in the main dining-room, and there was a fine-dressed crowd there, all talking loud and enjoyable about the two St. Louis topics, the water supply and the colour line. They mix the two subjects so fast that strangers often think they are discussing water-colours; and that has given the old town something of a rep as an art centre.

Art is the opposite of dissipation, in the physical and spiritual sense of the word: it is concentration, desire that seeks incarnation.