Quotes About Art

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

I have a strong art-history background.

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Music is reflection of self.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.