Quotes About Art

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It's a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

A symphony is no joke.

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.