Quotes About Art

It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw, and when she drew she was naturally always alone.

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn't use an easel. Easels seemed to her an altogether too assertive aid, too obvious. She liked to work as unobtrusively as possible, the paper spread on a board in her lap, close to her hand.

It's the unexpressed that interests me, he thought. I've been drawing too explicitly; it's a mistake to clarify everything.

Berenice's drawing was good. It had been done in a kind of painstaking fury, and depicted a creature with a black hole for a face. This creature was moving forward with its shoulders hunched. Its arms were long scalloped wings, like those on a bat. They began near its neck and dragged on the ground on either side, a prop or perhaps a hindrance for the vague, boneless body.

Toute nature morte, tout paysage, tout n'est qu'autoportrait.

Fashion speaks for itself.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

A poem can lie.)

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

One painting was of an observatory, the other of a boy on a bluff. Both featured starry skies—and both, Mr. Benedict had told them, were the work of a childhood friend.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

The space between . . . is the space that lies between the observer and the observed; it is the space of the creative act that brings a poem or painting to life." —F. David Peat, Pathways of Chance

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

DADA DADA DADA;—the roar of contorted pains, the interweaving of contraries and all contradictions, freaks and irrelevancies: LIFE.

Always destroy what is in you.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

Una obra de arte jamás es bella, por decreto, objetivamente, para todos.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.