Quotes About Art

Beethoven's "Leonore Overture.

Though games were barely acknowledged as a legitimate form of expression, let alone a legitimate art form, Tom was convinced that they were almost sublime forms of communication, just as films or novels. After

avant-garde , adj. This was after Alisa' show, the reverse-blackface rendition of Gone With the Wind , including songs from the Empire Records soundtrack and an interval of nineteenth-century German poetry, recited with a lisp. What does avant-garde mean, anyway? I asked. I believe it translates as favor to your friends , you replied.

This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.

I still have that drawing. Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.

I never thought I would end up with someone who wasn't possessed by music in the same way I am.

We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

Fill your head with the right pictures of me. Fill your head with the ones you'd hang on the wall.

We all understand that this is just music. We all understand these songs were written Before - there is no way the band could have known how we would hear them After. But the songs ring true.

And love, I learned, is a constant act of creation, just as creation is almost always an act of love.

We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time.

No, Tiny. Words. Passion. The danger of falling in love is you mistakenly believe the loved one is the only source of passion in your life. But there is passion everywhere. In music. In words. In the stories you tell and the stories you see. Find passion everywhere, and share it widely. Don't narrow it down to one thin line.

Just listen to the music and paint. Follow the sound. Don't think about rules. Don't worry about getting it perfect. Just let the song carry you." "But what about instructions?" "There are no other instructions.

doodle, v.: I have more fun when it's freedom

My voice is blind, my hearing is mute, my sight is deaf. Art is science, mathematics is conversation, and music is something that bleeds. I am so far away that I am inside myself. I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

Se podría decir que escribí toda una novela sólo para cambiar el final de una canción.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely uninteresting.

This is what love does. It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot.

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. But the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened—how we all became so imperfect.