Quotes About Art

To Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, I hope you're pleased with yourself

The CAD image was drawn by an electron beam onto a green phosphorus coating on the inside of the glass TV tube. The

Frank Gehry's office began to recognize the benefits of CAD/CAM and reciprocated in a technology transfer back to architecture, fusing computers with engineering, fabrication, art and architecture.

Firenze Card when you arrive in Florence

Juan Bautista de Toledo

The Bible says, "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works."1 Our English word poem comes from the Greek word translated "workmanship." You are God's handcrafted work of art. You are not an assembly-line product, mass produced without thought. You are a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original masterpiece.

The rich had always commissioned portraits of themselves but the poor moved invisibly through history.

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was.

Art was dangerous—it gave you ideas.

The purpose of Art,' his mother, Sylvie, said – instructed even – 'is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself.

If you were to ask me what the book is about (which is the most loathsome question you could ask—why bother to write the thing if you then have to explain it? It is what it is) and if I were forced to answer, I would say, "It's about things.

And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

I made you something

Furlough took him on a tour of the castle to demonstrate the art of scurrying.

Botticelli sat

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.

Hyacinth, we all have our limits. I can't save the world. I can't stop this war. Maybe, just maybe, I can communicate a few things through art.

knit and purl These stitches are the fundamentals of knitting and are the basis of every garment. The knit stitch is a series of flat, vertical loops that produces a knitted fabric face and the purl stitch is its reverse. One side is smooth, the other bumpy. Knit is what you show the world; purl is the soft, nubbly underside you keep close to the skin.

It was essential that someone, somewhere, even if it was only the fairy folk, should know that the human race had produced more than wars, catastrophes, and ultimately its own slow and painful self-destruction. It had produced things of exquisite and lasting beauty as well.

There is a love for the real, an affection for the true, in all of Dutch art. A church interior with its stillness. A hand with its gesture. A landscape with its distances. A cloud with its motion.

Lesson learned. To succeed as an architect in this world is to sacrifice vision to reality. The field of architecture pretends to be art, and sometimes a house design that is real and true gets recognition, but in reality, success is more often a business. A little seed of brilliance that had germinated and begun to sprout deep inside Duncan withered and died that afternoon.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.

Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey.