Quotes About Art

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me.

When Homer composed the Iliad and Odyssey, he was drawing on centuries of history and folklore handed down by oral tradition. When Nicolas Poussin painted The Rape of the Sabine Women, he was re-creating Roman history. When Marcel Proust dipped his petites madeleines into his tea, the taste and aroma set off a flood of memories and emotions from which modern literature has still not recovered.

Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Many individuals do not buy many books or go to many art museums, but the passion for music is widespread and nearly universal.

You don't do design. Design does you

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Toda obra, toda novela, narra a través de la trama de los acontecimientos la historia de su propia creación, su propia historia.

I painted the lines and colours that affected my inner eye. I painted from memory without adding anything, without the details that I no longer saw in front of me. This is the reason for the simplicity of the painting, their obvious emptiness. I painted the impressions of my childhood, the dull colours of a forgotten day.

Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night.

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.

If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.

To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme

Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Inflate the sentence. Try to make it burst.