Quotes About Art

Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

I swear I want to be a food model.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.