Quotes About Art

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, 'Don't get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

Every couple of years or so, when Daniel Clowes releases a new book, one can almost sense the rectal contraction across the collective seat of our humble profession.

Ich glaube, daß jener Apparat, der die Aufnahme und Verarbeitung von Wirklichkeit zu tätigen hat, von Literatur geformt wird

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces of the present, and that in the artistic process there is some kind of labour of resistance and a possibility of survival. It gradually also became a fundamental theme of his films.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Rigid geometry forced in varied curves is "mother," / is "nature," is systematic violation." Muy Bueno. / This device is for you, the mutilated of no art.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

Christina Baker Kline

People think the painting is a portrait, but it isn't. Not really. He wasn't even in the field; he conjured it from a room in the house, an entirely different angle. He removed rocks and trees and outbuildings. The scale of the barn is wrong. And I am not that frail young thing, but a middle-aged spinster. It's not my body, really, and maybe not even my head. He

And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.

From the recesses of my brain a word floats up: synecdoche. A part that stands in for the whole. Christina's World.

Christina Baker Kline

He frowns. "Sure is strange looking. Doubt I could sell it if I tried.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)

If asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least one person, while males nearly always draw things—cars, rockets, or trucks.

When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre