Quotes About Art

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Beauty is the gift of God

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

People dance at any age.