Quotes About Art

The broad-shouldered artist grabbed her and kissed her hungrily. He buried his face in the soft valley between her firm bosoms, "My very dear…? he breathed.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass.

Literatuur wordt door zieken gemaakt. Wie gezond is, schrijft geen boeken.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

You have to feel what's right, and sometimes what's right in art is sad.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk-flavored chewing gum.

Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

Gilbert and Sullivan is for me ... a balm, a tonic, and a stimulant. When I am down, it picks me up. When I am tired, it restores me. When I am feeling on top of the world, it lets me express my joy in song." -- Ian Bradley, "Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.

I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.

The people's degenerate taste--sick and twisted to be sure--is a product of their disaffection from art, top-down programming, and the power of commercial psyop mind control. They can be guided out of the toilet just as they were guided in.

An artist who is 'anti-censorship' is essentially waving a white flag; declaring their work to be inconsequential; a smudge; a scribble, a doddle, or a polka dot.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

This piece of Performance Art entitled 'The Elector Passes' has been brought to you by the members of the Raging Apostles

All written art is an attempt to communicate what it is to feel.

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.