Quotes About Art

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Where he'd mistaken her for his muse, only to find she was actually the keeper of his heart.

an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

The poet does not use poetry, but is at the service of poetry. To use it is to misuse it.

Hugh Kenner, in a lecture, beautifully defined what poets seek if they really are poets) as "the power to make things as moving as the things they have been moved by.

The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can't be gods with giant amps despite the bliss that animates them when they're trying hard.

What you seem to like in my drawings is how they reveal the dark underside, or whatever it's called, of people you wouldn't think were particularly screwed up. But you should know the real goal of my work is a Dorian Gray type of thing. I make you look awful, and I start to look really good….

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real

I am not an artist in the independent sense, I'm part of dynamic situations, and that's where I like it.

The truth is that Robert Johnson wrestled a superb art out of the blues tradition, an art that has appealed to generations of both black and white listeners, an art that is an essential element of the ongoing progression that is the freedom principle in operation. Forget the context, the mysteries, and the lies; those twenty-nine masters represent artistic truth.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

Do everything in life with passion. Amazing artists, brilliant inventors, and wonderful writers reach the highest levels in their fields because of their passion. Without passion, life is like an empty and hollow seashell lying in the sand. It's the Passion that brings Life into everything that you do in life. Cheers!

The birth of a novel invention can only be compared with the creation of a beautiful painting or an exquisite perfume, in my view, It's an amazingly perfect blend of art and science, unexpected, unforeseen, unprecedented and truly divine. Long live the creativity and the spirit of inventiveness!

Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Scapegrace leaped up. "I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!" Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling.

Have you killed anyone?" she asked quickly. "What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder into an art form?" "But you haven't actually killed anyone yet, have you? I read your file." He glowered. "Technically, yeah, all right, maybe I haven't

I'm almost finished," said Wilhelm, wiping out a line with his sleeve and drawing over it. "I never doubted you for a moment," said Vex, then looked at Aurora and spoke more softly. "I actually doubted him the whole time. He's really not very good." Wilhelm turned. "I'm standing right in front of you. I can hear literally every sound you make." "Wilhelm, please," said Vex, "this is a private conversation.

I am turning murder into an art form. When I – when I kill, I'm actually painting a big, big picture, using blood and, and . . . messiness, you know? – Scapegrace

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.