Quotes About Art

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as artificial as possible - in fact works of art. So why not begin by eating a few statues?

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

Writers need light. They always tell you this, as though they're parched, as though they're plants, as though the page they're working on would look completely different with a southern exposure.

The Ishtar of cartoons," wrote the Reporter. Every failure was the Ishtar of something

If the point of drawing was to bring your work into the world so that other people could see it and sense what you'd meant to convey, then, no, Gil should not keep giving it a whirl: he should never draw anything again. No whirls. It should be illegal for Gil Wolf to possess charcoal sticks. But if the point was something else, expression or release, or a way to give private meaning to the loss of your son, your child, your boy, then yes, he should draw and draw.

Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

Let me show you what I know of it," he murmured. "Your mouth can be considered a hundred ways. Rico would look at it and he would see the light and shade; Byron Sawyer would see the color; yet another artist might see the line. A hundred truths, and not one is wrong. There are no original ideas, darling, only original visions. Each of us would draw your lips a different way, yet none of us could capture the complete essence of them.

The two of you made something so beautiful it changed the way I saw it. I'll never think of those places the same way again.

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.

A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!