Quotes About Art

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Scapegrace leaped up. "I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!" Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

I had had no art training.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.