Quotes About Art

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.

For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there.

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.