Quotes About Art

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.