Quotes About Art

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

My work should be seen as poetry.

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

Love is like playing the piano, first you must learn to play by the rules, then you forget the rules and play from your heart.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Evidently, being pissed off with someone can motivate you creatively!

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty?...To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Unbalanced pride is often a false friend, and is ruinous for egomaniacs who can't see beyond their choices of expressing art.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of all of it. Let us now celebrate the sound of our own voices.

He Self Portraits tend to be a reflection of our Heavenly Father and if you look deep into the eyes of these pictures, its as though you can see through their eyes and into the depths of their souls.

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.