Quotes About Art

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

People say you have expensive tastes.My Humble reply : I appreciate fine art, and fine art is not cheap.

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it.

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

Art for Art's Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.