Quotes About Art

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I drew when I was very, very young. My mom kept stuff I drew when I was 2 and a half years old, because it looked like, you know, like a jaguar as opposed to a cheetah.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

My mom is a sculptress.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.