Quotes About Art

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.

Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.