Quotes About Art

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

And the artists were the worst, the painters and the writers, because they believed they were living for art when they were really feeding their narcissism.

Ez is olyan, mint a képek a múzeumban – állapította meg –, csak arra próbálnak ürügyet találni, hogy meztelen nÅ'ket mutogassanak.

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

What most people don't understand about Jean-Michel is that his crazy behavior had nothing to do with being an enfant terrible. Everything he did was an attack on racism and I loved him for this.

He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an S inside, Because, Suzanne, you are my home.

A lot of the early jazz artists, of course, couldn't even walk through the front door of the hotels and clubs they were playing in and had to enter through back doors and kitchens, and I think Jean felt this was a metaphor for his place in the art world: he had entered through the back door. He broke into the white art world in a way that had never been done before by any black.

He refuses to sell his paintings and writes NOT FOR SALE on some of them. He is furious because people are writing about his ghetto childhood and call him a graffiti artist and primitive. They don't invent a childhood for white artists, he says.

Jean was black and had to present himself as separate from graffiti somehow. Keith was gay and white and could glamorize graffiti in a way that Jean could not. Jean and Keith both understood this.

Without music, our culture is a poor and soulless place where people simply exist but cease to live.

Daisy knew about proportion from art class, but she knew about men from life.

Once again, the show became life imitating art, imitating life, because we went in with this whole boxing thing—you're down but not out, and no matter what's happening in your life, you keep fighting.

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sing the prettiest songs

I'm probably mangling this quote from Oscar Wilde, who said he saved his truest genius for his life—that his life was his real work of art. That was Drue. She had a genius for living.

It wasn't just the money, it was the polish that the money had given her, the cities she'd visited, the plays and the art she'd seen.

The neighbourhood of Pangbourne, where the quaint little Swan Inn stands, must be as familiar to the habitues of the Art Exhibitions as it is to its own inhabitants.

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

Why are we concerned with art? To cross our frontiers, exceed our limitations, fill our emptiness - fulfil ourselves. This is not a condition but a process in which what is dark in us slowly becomes transparent.

Accents don't show up in music.

If you divorced him, we'd have more money. He doesn't hardly sell any sculptures. He eats and drinks a lot. Mostly you pay the bills.

He wondered if the German girl ever knew that someone had loved her so much that he painted her twice on the cold cement wall of a machine-gun pillbox.

The eye sees everything upside down," the artist explained, "and then the brain automatically reverses it. I'm just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it." Alvis

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