Quotes About Art

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.