Quotes About Art

Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

Well you, young man, need to learn about what is much more important than cool. And that is: what is beautiful.

NO NOTES. This was truly an oral event. Storytellers didn't read their stories; they told them, which allowed for eye contact.

Leadership is more than management. Leadership is: • People more than projects • Movement more than maintenance • Art more than science • Intuition more than formula • Vision more than procedure • Risk more than caution • Action more than reaction • Relationships more than rules • Who you are more than what you do If you want to influence others, then you must learn to lead.

For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues.

One not only writes a book. One lives it. Upon completing it there are certain symptoms of death.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly than we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

Art is the resonance of inseeing joy.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. —Milton Glaser

Probablemente piensa que lo mismo les sucede a los artistas en general, a los artistas masculinos, que no están hechos para lo que llamo amor; que no pueden entregarse del todo, o no están dispuestos a hacerlo, por la sencilla razón de que tienen una esencia secreta que han de preservar por el bien de su arte.

After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right.

Favorite Things' is my favorite piece of all those I have recorded.

She can paint a lovley picture, but the story has a twist...her paint brush is a razor...and her canvouse is her wrist.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.