Quotes About Art

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

Our pictures are our footprints. It's the best way to tell people we were here.

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

Writing well is the best revenge.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.