Quotes About Art

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

The game seems childish, at first. But all of art is childish, all storytelling, all human hope and fear.

After tens of thousands of pages, they've circled back to Tolstoy and are now a good inch and a half into Anna Karenina. Dot resumes the story with no trace of self-consciousness or shame, no hint that art and life have enrolled in the same drawing class. And that, for Ray, is the greatest mercy fiction gives: proof that the worst the two of them have done to each other is just another tale worth reading together, at the end of the day.

A chemical semaphore passes through Nick's brain: Suppose a person had sculpted any one of these, just as they stand. That single work would be a landmark of human art.

Life is a battle between the Maker and His creation.

Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered. ON THE SIDE of the other trailer, Watchman paints words in an alphabet wild and vivid.

Musicians speak of bliss, but that's just to throw the uninitiated off the scent. There is no bliss; there is only control.

All of art is childish, all storytelling, all human hope and fear.

Frederick A. Murphy, a virologist who had helped to identify Marburg virus. He was and is one of the world's leading electron-microscope photographers of viruses. (His photographs of viruses have been exhibited in art museums.)

found that scientists think about problems in much the same way artists do. Scientists and artists proved less similar in personality than in cognition, but both groups were similarly different from businessmen.

John Dominic Crossan demonstrates convincingly through art that "the West lost and the East kept the original Easter vision.

For all who have tried to know Jesus without Christ, many of the core church teachings offered a disembodied Christ without any truly human Jesus, which was the norm for centuries in doctrine and in art. Art is the giveaway of what people really believe at any one time.

Finally, I think the heart space is often opened by "right brain" activities5 such as music, art, dance, nature, fasting, poetry, games, life-affirming sexuality, and, of course, the art of relationship itself.

Jung believed that humans produce in art the inner images the soul needs in order to see itself and to allow its own transformation.

Good art seems absolutely essential to healthy religion.

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

We're not copying life, we're making a comment on it.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Now the tattoos, Zia announced. Brilliant! I said. On your tongue, she added. Excuse me?

Marvelous," she said. "Tell me about this tapestry." Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles. "Why do you care? You're about to die." "Well, yes," Annabeth said. "But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real gold thread for the sunbeams?

Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling! -Tyson

But it's your Oracle, I protested. Can't you tell us what the prophecy means? Apollo sighed. You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.

I can see hope inside it. Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. So fragile.

Your art…" I gaped at the field of white. "There was a lovely portrait of me—right there." I get offended whenever art is damaged, especially if that art features me.