Quotes About Art

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your talent to please the public.

If you're going to perform, you're going to attract criticism. You can't please everyone all the time. You don't know how things are going to come out. But that's part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

I appreciate film and stuff that's visually pleasing.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Short-sighted music fans might scoff at the revivalism of, say, Ariel Pink, but plenty of acts have built healthy careers around the art of bringing back the past.

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.