Quotes About Art

He had a body that begged to be painted…with chocolate.

Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.

I don't do 'black music, ' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.

Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

It is so dam difficult to be simple.

Her face collapsed like a bad poem

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.