Quotes About Art

No bad man can be a good poet.

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.