Quotes About Art

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.