Quotes About Art

There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.

I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and it's been going feetingly.

photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art. That pretty much sums up my existence, she thinks.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

I think that my art, my poetry, prose and music come from these cracks in my being, these ley lines where spirit is said to reside. I have come out of the horror of that experience having lost my faith in the inherent goodness of humanity, yet curiously appreciating even more the effort it takes to be good.

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better.

Books lay on the floor in literary dunes.

He tried. He really did. For a good ninety seconds he molded the clay as best he could. His final effort came out resembling a pear.

And he didn't draw dog turds in the house style either. He drew the flies circling above too big, and gave them wings. Me, I preferred a few tiny little dots above a turd. That made it look less disgusting, but smellier at the same time.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

art Sir William of Goat?