Quotes About Art

Here is where a real fresco should be painted, one without importance, but one with real faith, mapless, Historyless.

Why does no one in America recite poetry?" Aziz complains. "They go to the coffeehouse and they just drink the coffee.

That's not precisely what I had in mind. Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

It was not Monsieur Arouet, but a colleague of his—a lady novelist—who remarked to me once that writing novels was a cannibal's art, in which one often mixed small portions of one's friends and one's enemies together, seasoned them with imagination, and allowed the whole to stew together into a savory concoction.

One never stops to think what underlies romance. Tragedy and terror, transmuted by time. Add a little art in the telling, and voilà! a stirring romance, to make the blood run fast and maidens sigh.

Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?

Una dama novelista me dijo una vez, que escribir novelas era arte de caníbales, pues uno mezcla con frecuencia pequeñas porciones de sus amigos y sus enemigos, los sazona con imaginación y permite que todo eso se cocine en un sabroso guiso

One of my mother's friends was an artist. He showed me a few things – though warning me that to become an artist was the only certain way to starve.

This is why you use imagery when writing about sex; it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion.

writing novels was a cannibal's art, in which one often mixed small portions of one's friends and one's enemies together, seasoned them with imagination, and allowed the whole to stew together into a savory concoction.

INK-STAINED WRETCH

But it was something to do with the paintings Ã¢â'¬Â¦

When you write it down…" he said. "Does that make it—whatever it is—real again? Or does the act of putting it into words make it unreal? You know, something…separate from yourself.

I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American filmmaker.

I just feel like, especially after 'Crazy Rich Asians,' gentrification isn't affecting art. I am actually more inspired by art now than ever.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

Theatre is what I'm passionate about, it's what I do day in day out, and I love people asking questions about it.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

I would hope to make a record that interacts with culture in a macro sense. That is something to aspire to.