Quotes About Art

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. Especially when it comes to love. Sometimes fate throws two lovers together only to rip them apart. Sometimes the hero finally makes the right choice but the timing is all wrong. And, as they say, timing is everything. Looks like this story might just have a second act. Let's hope it's not a tragedy.

A thousand composers couldn't create a soundtrack as lovely as your voice.

Poetry is worship...Stretching my soul, opening my heart and touching every part of my being. Poetry is worship to me!

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

La tristesse durera toujours.]

Dying is an art.Like everything else, I do it exceptionally well.I do it so it feels like hell.I do it so it feels real.I guess you could say I have a call.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.

Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

Design is thinking made visual.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.