Quotes About Art

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Art can make chaos seductive.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.