Quotes About Art

I sing just to sing it all to the surface. All the things we can't hold on to: life as it once was and isn't any longer, I guess.

Miles Davis once said: "Do not fear mistakes—there are none.

All the lessons of invention come down to this: The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

It now seems possible, even necessary, to reconnect art with science, synthesis with analysis, magic with logic.

It's almost impossible to reconcile creativity with cleanliness. The sculptor gets metal dust all over his studio. The writer must wade through a clutter of notes, books, and crumpled drafts to get to her desk. The rock musician must weave through a tangle of cables, black boxes, guitar stands, and song notes to sit down and create.

Caminó hacia el taxi erguido, algo envarado, metido en la prisión de un cuerpo que le estaba traicionando mientras su mente, sus recuerdos, su arte y su voz extraordinaria poseían aún la frescura de las sábanas limpias.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Much of our lives involves the word 'no.' In school we are mostly told, 'Don't do it this way. Do it that way.' But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

But the last century of the Republic was more than a mere bloodbath. As the flowering of poetry, theory and art suggests, it was also a period when Romans grappled with the issues that were undermining their political process and came up with some of their greatest inventions, including the radical principle that the state had some responsibility for ensuring that its citizens had enough to eat.

The history of art is about how we look. It is not only about the men and women who – with their paints and pencils, their clays and chisels – created the images that fill our world, from cheap trinkets to 'priceless masterpieces'. It is even more about the generations of humankind who have used, interpreted, argued over and given meaning to those images.

Nonetheless, whatever mystery surrounds them, the Olmec have left us a powerful in-your-face reminder that across the world, when people first made art they made it about themselves. From the very beginning art has been about us.

Once the outcome is known, it is easy to present the period as a series of irrevocable and brutal steps in the direction of crisis or as a slow countdown to both the end of the free state and the return of one-man rule. But the last century of the Republic was more than a mere bloodbath. As the flowering of poetry, theory and art suggests, it was also a period when Romans grappled with the issues that were undermining their political process and came up with some of their greatest inventions

Greece, once conquered, conquered her savage victor and brought culture into the rough land of Latium' (better in Latin: 'Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio').

Mount Rushmore, which old John Fire always called the "Giant Tourist Curio Ashtray.

After all, you have just been sold a painting for $1 million, and the cost of making it was probably less than $500.

Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.