Quotes About Art

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

Interpretation of the ECG is as much an art as it is a science.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

I like songs. It's a weakness that I have.

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness.

I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that.

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life.

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole.

Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage. It was a person who made great stuff. And then an institution, a religious institution, a government, a wealthy individual, would pay that person to go make more of that.

Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that's a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

It dawned on me that theatre is a powerful weapon for change.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.