Quotes About Art

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.