Quotes About Art

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.