Quotes About Art

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.

They shut him out from everything they did, and in his isolation, he had sought solace in painting

break-dancing became the

Bill Casey called her the next morning to say he wanted her to bid on the two paintings at Christie's, to start his collection. His wife had liked them too, when he showed her the images. They established a maximum price she could bid up to. He sounded very excited, and she was happy for him. This was a major step, and a big investment

Busy, well, and happy." She smiled at him. He still had the same knack of making everything seem festive. They had always had a good time together. And as she glanced around, she saw that the restaurant was beautiful, with important contemporary art hanging on the walls. There was a Damien Hirst right above their table, which Maddie noticed immediately.

7. Get a drawing buddy. Or join an online group like Everyday Matters on Facebook.

Though the extractive institutions that the Mayas created produced sufficient wealth for the cities to flourish and the elite to become wealthy and generate great art and monumental buildings, the system was not stable. The extractive institutions upon which this narrow elite ruled created extensive inequality, and thus the potential for infighting between those who could benefit from the wealth extracted from the people. This conflict ultimately led to the undoing of the Maya civilization. W

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen Mac Cormack, for her advice during the early stages of this project; and to David Bromige (weaver of radhats), for his enthusiasm which encouraged me to develop this piece into a book-length poem.

Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.

Andy Warhol goes to the Big Soup Can in the Sky.

Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general.

Here is a drawing of a stapler: