Quotes About Art

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.

I'm a fan of small venues that showcase emerging talent in the most organic way.

Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be like stand-up or rock music. It can be intimate, it can be pubic.

I really don't consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She's like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.