Quotes About Art

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

I know that 'Tangerine' is getting a lot of attention for pushing the iFilm, but I am really mourning the death of celluloid.

I feel like my objective in music is to take a hammer and nail and chip away a piece of my heart and give it to someone, so I feel, with merch, it's a tangible parallel of that.

If you're making something tangible, whether it's clothing, a song, a piece of art... when you create something that's outside of yourself you take a bit of the pain and it's released, you let it out a little bit. That's my Oprah Winfrey moment.

A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.

A while ago, I got a chance to learn tango for a performance in my college.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well.

I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.

During dull moments at school, I admit, I not only drew soldiers shooting one another but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with planet-destroying powers.

I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying to be true to what I liked as a kid.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

Our reaction against the sentimentality embodied in Victorian and post-Victorian writing was so resolute writers came to believe that the further from sentimentality we got, the truer the art. That was a mistake. ...if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self.

History," declared Droysen, "is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

It has been said that geometry is the art of applying good reasoning to bad diagrams.

the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

I want you to regard Mandrake Press Ltd. solely as your publishers, and not to prejudice the purely commercial side of that purely publishing concern with any of your fits and starts, Thelemite politics, earthquakes, and the other distracting phenomena of art and nature, such as pin pricks, dogmatism, human chess, brawls, faux pas, bravado and braggadocio, pure bluff, brainwaves, and dementia precox, which tend to accompany your too personal intrusion into the world of practical affairs. 13

There are more angel sculptures, figurines, and paintings here than at a Vatican garage sale.

We're the trained dogs of the spectacle…it's devoured our lives, our art, our dignity. But existence is not determined by the whim of politicians.

For Dieste, art in general and religious architecture in particular is not a luxury but a basic commodity, like potatoes.

I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself. - Celine

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. —THOMAS HUXLEY

What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.