Quotes About Art

I'll be honest," I said. "I don't like it one little bit. But I'm delighted to see it exhibited without any interference from people who know as little about art as I do. Looking at it is like looking inside the head of someone who disagrees with you about nearly everything. It makes me feel uncomfortable." I shook my head sadly and sighed, "That's democracy, I guess." Another

acts. Looking at Noreen, you wondered why anyone ever bothered to draw or paint anything else but a woman's naked body.

No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there's nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear off.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

The art of marketing is largely the art of brand building. When something is not a brand, it will be probably be viewed as a commodity.

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

He cut through the Twenty-First Century gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal-headed gods of lost America.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

Here where the literary culture is held hostage, the art of narration flourishes by mouth. In Prague, stories aren't simply stories; it's what they have instead of life.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, "Take me, I'm yours," then that's the one for you. —Frank Zappa

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.

GARY: Speaking of pain and blood, did you read about the artist who raised all these frogs in his apartment and released them outside a school in New York City? ANDY: That was a slaughter. Inhumane. I heard he got charged with animal cruelty. The members of PETA want long jail time. Why should a frog's life be any less than a human life? GARY: Well the answer is simple: they don't consume goods and contribute to the economy.

All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood' all over the page, the paper would not be stained now would I bleed.

And do not forget that the blood of rebellion flows through your veins, that around your soul meanders the river of perfection; above all stay devoted to your art — even if it is only the art of living! — above all remain loyal to it.

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.