Quotes About Art

Selling is the art of asking the right questions to get the minor yeses that allow you to lead your prospect to the major decision. It's a simple function, and the final sale is nothing more than the sum total of all your yeses.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Eigenlijk zou je twee levens moeten hebben: een om te leven en een om te schrijven. Die twee storen elkaar.

Zeg nooit: ik heb gisteren een goed toneelstuk gezien. Zeg: ik was gisteren getuige van een relevante toneelervaring.

Het leven ís geen galerie, van boven tot onder in steriel wit geschilderd, met maar één kubistisch winterlandschapje aan de muur, of met maar één stuk excrement dat aan één draadje aan de zoldering hangt te draaien, of met maar één aquarium waarin op sterk water ocharme één beest ronddrijft dat proper in tweeën is gesneden, of wat er vandaag de dag verder nog allemaal naar voren wordt geschoven als zijnde 'de kunst van het moderne memento mori'.

Er woekert een hardnekkig misverstand, bij kenners en bij leken, dat schrijven 'bewaren' betekent. Het is natuurlijk andersom. Schrijven is vernielen, bij gebrek aan beter. Waar je over schrijft gaat pas dan en juist daardoor voorbij. Literatuur is loslaten. Schrijven is verdrijven.

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Music is the structure of the invisible," she says.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

The power of liking or disliking, or what psychologists call "affect," should not be underestimated: It not only informs what we feel about something like art but influences how we see it.

One thing that is known is that they do not look at paintings very long.

We spend time with a painting to try to understand it, but how much time we spend with a painting is driven by how much we understand of it.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things

Singing is just doing interesting things to the air. Elongating it and twisting it into shapes.

Songs are really just interesting things to be doing with the air

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.