Quotes About Art

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

this Golden Age in Germany music, too, had become a great art, with such immortal names as Mozart, Gluck, Haydn, and Beethoven; and the period of great orchestration also had commenced.[1]

Even the Pyramids were made to serve his consummate art and ambition! Although

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.

If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don't be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time?

Group f.64 believed that photographic beauty was defined by beautiful prints produced by purely photographic means. The subjects need not be beautiful. What might appear ugly or commonplace could have value through the respectful understanding and expression of the photographer.

Although Reed tried valiantly, the income from print sales never balanced out the high cost of framing, advertising, printing announcements, and the rent on New York's prestigious gallery row, West Fifty-seventh Street. She confessed that the Delphic Studios were "a philanthropic endeavor rather than a business enterprise" and that, sadly, "sales were so infrequent as to make hope of any return at all from commissions a remote possibility.

Breton, heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, believed that art should be freed from the brake placed on creativity by the conscious mind.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

They might try to remind me That Such Tragedy surrounds me But this suffering created art I never found it scary... I was all undercover

What's in my veins makes me free Oh what you have done for me! Two who made a work of art Mama brought the armor, Daddy engineered the heart.

Simawoo," Cassiopeia chanted absently as she drew. "Simawoo, Simawoo, Simahwooooooo

Mein schönstes Gedicht? Ich schrieb es nicht. Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es. Ich schwieg es.

Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their assumptions, something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts -- a great work of art is always a miracle.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

The most recent modern rendition of the Enchiridion is due to Sharon Lebelle in 1995, under the title The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.

You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work.

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.