Quotes About Art

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.