Quotes About Art

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

Don t play what's there, play what's not there.

Don't play what s there play what's not there.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Pornography is the industrialisation of erotism.

Reading is really like trying to hit one tossed stone with another; the consonants are the stones, the vowels their velocity.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

He taught him to wag his trunk like a tail. Then Arnold painted the most beautiful cat's face on the elephant.

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)

It was possible that he was in love with the way she wrote the number two—her parallel lines expressing a kind of free movement inside the invisible box that contained the ideograph's strokes.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

So we support the dance but it does not support us.

Dance and the other art forms can be taught, but how to make an ozashiki sparkle can not.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of not knowing before we can settle into knowing.

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.

Everyone knows that if you paint a human being entirely with house paint he will live, as long as you don't paint the bottom of his feet. It takes only a little thing like this to kill a person.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'