Quotes About Art

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.