Quotes About Art

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

You need fear to create, to live.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.

It is an art to be where you are, and see happiness in life's ever changing landscape. Today look with new eyes, and treasure all you can.

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.

My body is my journal and my tattoos are my story.

When the world lets me down, I'll paint a smile.

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life...light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.