Quotes About Art

The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

I think the reason so many people adored him has to do with the inarticulable sensation that his person was as large as his art. As people fell in love with Ben Meechum, Will McLean, Tom Wingo, Jack McCall, and Leo Bloom, they fell simultaneously in love with Pat, the writer and the man.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

The abstract, curvilinear motifs of ancient Islamic decorative art found in mosaics and carpet design appear again and again at all scales of magnification on the boundary of the Mandelbrot set.

Arthur C. Clarke thinks that it may be just a coincidence, "but", he writes, "the Mandelbrot set does indeed seem to contain an enormous number of mandalas or religious symbols, which are found in ecclesiastical designs-such as stained glass windows, and particularly in Islamic art. We find many forms like the Paisley pattern echoing the Mandelbrot set centuries before it was discovered!

Fractal image compression can even guess, by interpolation, what lies outside the frame of a picture.

Zooming into the boundary of the M-set, we find smaller and smaller island molecules, surrounded by increasingly intricate circular patterns, evocative of Oriental art, particularly in the meditative designs of Buddhism known as mandalas.

Art is about those things which we do not always immediately recognize or understand. The artist helps us to see things more clearly, revealing previously hidden patterns to us. Art is fractal. Art reflects and expresses the fractal nature of our conscious perceptions of the world, as interpreted by our fractal brains.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Love is not me being who you want. Your definition is a whirlpool trying to suck me in and I'm drowning. Don't you see?...It's time...Time you stop telling me who to be, how to live. This is my portrait. You chose your canvas. Let me choose mine.

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

Daughter of a Sikh father and a Hungarian mother, Amrita Sher-Gil in her short life (1913–41) transformed the course of Indian art. In her oft-quoted words: 'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and Braque and many others. India belongs only to me.

Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at.

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several times by these great teachers and reading wordless but eloquent advice for himself in their paintings.

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to shove them in the faces of young artists.