Quotes About Art

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

Typography exists to honor content.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

It's an honor to paint cats.

Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Art is the highest form of hope.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.