Quotes About Art

First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller.

If you love music—really, truly, love music—then you play it for yourself.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out. Just like Michael Ormewood, come to think of it. What a perfect pair.

This is the inscription Ben wrote inside the book: "First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller.

need to pull out the Shakespeare.

tutor in the computer lab. Claire was an art history major. She had never been good at math. Or at least she'd never tried to be, which was the same thing. She could vividly remember the first time she'd sat down with Paul and gone over one of her assignments.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I've become a caricature.

Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money. The species-relation itself, the relation between man and woman, etc., becomes an object of trade! The woman is bought and sold.

The write must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money

Art seems to be about coming up with your own story or take on each piece. This made me think about the mystery of the Mona Lisa. Everyone likes that painting cos they don't know the story behind it. Who is she? Why the cheeky smile? If the Mona Lisa was done today, we'd know everything there was to know about her cos she'd have sold her story to Heat magazine and done some open-hearted interview with a tabloid before the paint was dry.

The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself." SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.