Quotes About Art

Creative vision creates art"—he motioned around the gallery—"that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek: We write in sand, our language grows And like the tide, our work o'erflows.

Escribir bien cuesta. Por escribir bien entiendo decir con la máxima simplicidad las cosas esenciales.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

Books are never finished. They are merely abandoned." Only thirty percent of published books turn a profit, so we can rule out material motivation.

Huonokin teksti on aina parempi kuin ei tekstiä ollenkaan. Huono teksti on lähtökohta, mutta jos teksti puuttuu, ei ole mitään.

Kaikessa kirjoittamisessa on tietenkin kaksi puolta: totta kai täytyy olla jotain mistä kirjoittaa, mutta täytyy myös osata kirjoittaa.

Sempre olhamos os seres alados com alguma inveja. Falta-nos a arte do voo. Desconhecemos, porém, que existem outros métodos para voar. E um deles, o mais simples e acessível, é deixarmo-nos encantar pelas suas histórias secretas.

A política é a arte de mentir tão mal que só pode ser desmentida por outros políticos.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]

A book is from your heart and mind, it is your love put to words.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.

Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.

There's a harmony flowing through everything: art, music, shape. Sometimes you can just feel the way things are and ought to be.

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

all art forms attempt to translate what is unseen into what is seen. Painter Joel Sheesley states, "I ... suggest that the definition of content in art is very much like that New Testament definition of faith that calls faith `the substance of things hoped for."' Art, especially as we engage in it with a redeemed vision, becomes an activity of faith, translating the "substance of things hoped for" with words, paint and other materials into the content and form of art.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

I could say she looks like da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine" if there had ever been such a thing.

I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.

necromancy was essentially a bookish art,

El arte es como una declaración de amor, la conciencia de que dependemos unos de otros. Una confesión. Un acto inconsciente que, sin embargo, refleja el verdadero significado de la vida: amor y sacrificio.