Quotes About Art

I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly ever do.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

To learn how to love your enemies, read the Bible. To learn how to survive them, read the Art of War.

He was giving birth to groups of words.

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

Except for his hands, which belonged on a piece of monumental sculpture, and his small head, he was well proportioned. His muscles were large and round and he had a full, heavy chest. Yet there was something wrong. For all his size and shape, he looked neither strong nor fertile. He was like one of Picasso's great sterile athletes, who brood hopelessly on pink sand, staring at veined marble waves.

What a perfect escape the return to the womb was. Better by far than Religion or Art or the South Sea Islands. It was so snug and warm there, and the feeding was automatic. Everything perfect in that hotel. No wonder the memory of those accommodations lingered in the blood and nerves of everyone. It was dark, yes, but what a warm, rich darkness. The grave wasn't in it. No wonder one fought so desperately against being evicted when the nine months' lease was up.

Creative Copying: He also returned to his earlier practice of copying other artists' works. Apart from the fact that it could be done indoors, copying was a way of learning, and although he was now a great master (without fully recognizing the fact), Van Gogh's urge to learn remained very strong.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.

What any experimental art is trying to get you to do is move beyond your preconceptions and your expectations regarding what should be happening, what's going to happen, what kinds of effects it should have, and enter a liminal state in which those things can be redefined in the way that the particular artist or piece of art is proposing.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.

A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

You know what I think prolongs life?" Harry has said. "Art and Music. Beyond that, it is to have a heart full of love, That is the most important thing".

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

I make movies I want to see.