Quotes About Art

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.