Quotes About Art

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, "Actually, that's not so bad."

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.