Quotes About Art

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.