Quotes About Art

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

He was like warm marble wherever she touched him, solid and unyielding, Michelangelo's namesake sculpture come to life.

It is necessarily so, since every traditional art obeys a particular spiritual economy that limits its themes and means of expression, so that an abandonment of that economy almost immediately releases new and apparently unlimited artistic possibilities.

en terre d'Islam,] la distinction entre le sacré et le profane n'existe normalement que dans l'usage que l'on fait des œuvres d'art et non dans leurs formes : une maison n'est pas bâtie dans un style différent de celui d'une mosquée.

The history of Africans in America is brutal, but we have made art out of pain, sustaining our spirits with sunbursts of beauty, teaching ourselves how to rise the next day.

Be someone's muse.

It is for this reason that art, true art, the one that comes from the soul, is so important in our lives. Art consoles us, it lifts us and directs us. Art cures us. We are not only that which we eat and the air that we breathe. We are also the stories we have heard, the tales we fell asleep listening to when we were children, the books we have read, the music we heard and the emotions that a painting, a statue, or a poem have given us.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Art becomes an experience rather than a text that one interprets, and an experience resists universalization.

When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

Thus the chief purpose of art education for life is to help students understand something about themselves and others through art and thereby contribute to personal growth, social progress, and a sense of global community.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

This type of work feeds my soul.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'

I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.

It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

People take getting offended in L.A. to an art form.

The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.