Quotes About Art

I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.