Quotes About Art

My own experiences in dealing with "Hollywood" types is that most are pathological liars, ignorant in the ways of literature and art, lacking in common sense, and incredibly arrogant. They will make empty promises, waste a writer's time, screw in moronic ways with his material, and generally distract a writer from accomplishing anything worthwhile.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Through all these years my couch thou didst prepare. Thou art supreme Love--kiss me--I am thine!

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light

Design has killed architecture. Design is what they teach in the schools.

A cast-iron stove overflowing with decoration costs less than a plain one; amidst the surging leaf patterns flaws in the casting cannot be seen.

Arhitectura are un alt sens È™i alte scopuri decât doar de a scoate în eviden?? construcÈ›ia È™i de a r?spunde unor necesit??i. Arhitectura este arta prin excelen??, care atinge starea de m?reÈ›ie platonician?, de ordine matematic?, de speculaÈ›ie spiritual?, de percepere a armoniei prin raporturi emoÈ›ionale. Iat? scopul arhitecturii.

When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.

To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.

The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.

How eagerly the words spring into shape, winding themselves around a rigid latticework of meaning like the curling tendrils of ivy that crisscross my window. The skeletal branches, whose intricate fretwork clings to the screen, hold tight against a lashing wind and pelting rain.

Theater is like the leopards, Clem told Diggs. It disrupts the status quo, she tried. Until its ideas bring about lasting change by getting incorporated in society. Maybe. Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy. She's good at that. But if we're talking expedience, law has it all over art, bambina.

But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.