Quotes About Art

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.

Bollywood songs are losing their poetic value.

Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

Art can retain its value and even make you some money. If you have your iPhone on you - and you probably do - look for the artist's signature, and use that to look up the artist and get a sense of the piece's value before you buy it.

I feel like all my films have my politics. As a film-maker, whatever story you're telling, your value system comes out.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

We walked around in the afternoons visiting art installations and camps that offered all kinds of entertainments. The pop-up city was a psychedelic carnival.

The highlight is on Saturday, when the thousands gather to watch a bonfire consume the Burning Man, a ten-story-high wooden effigy packed with gasoline.

It is said that books save lives, but I also say that empty sketchbooks save lives too. I filled up many, and there is no doubt they saved mine.

El cambio es tanto un arte como una ciencia

The only thing that keeps me going is my art, she wrote. I believe in my heart that art is God's great gift to humanity. It's the only thing in my life I haven't botched miserably.

We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

Intentamos que el arte sea perfecto porque en la vida real jamás lo logramos

Richard III was one of those plays that could repeal the law of diminishing returns; it could be enjoyed over and over again.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly highbrow, painfully ambiguous, and potentially unreadable.

Rhetoric is the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic. And it harnesses the most powerful of social forces, argument.

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.

There is no Great American Novel," she said absently. "This nation is too big and too diverse to produce only one great book. We've got lots of them and there will be more written in the future. Art doesn't stand still.

Desdemona had learned early in life that the world was divided into two groups, those who loved the theater and barbarians.