Quotes About Art

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

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He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen?

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.

I never travel without my sketch book.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

The pimp game is like the watchmaker's art, it's tough. Party went through his life struggling to make a watch while wearing boxing gloves.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

I love ballet and am more interested in it than in anything else. . . . For the only form of scenic art that sets itself, as its cornerstone, the tasks of beauty, and nothing else, is ballet.

The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.

The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.