Quotes About Art

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.

Any great work of art revives and readapts times and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world--the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own, a meaning in musical terms, not in terms of words.

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in

We are ugly but we have the music.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.