Quotes About Art

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

I draw a door on the floor and tell him, This is where dad used to take me for dinner.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up.

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

Rolul artei este s? completeze natura, iar rolul naturii este s? imite arta. Moartea e funcÈ›ia pe care a n?scocit-o natura pentru a imita fotografia. Iar oamenii au inventat fotografia pentru a capta acest formidabil stop-cadru pe care-l reprezint? momentul morÈ›ii. Stau È™i m? întreb ce sens putea avea moartea înainte de Nicephore Niepce.

The artist Paul Klee described drawing a picture as taking a line for a walk. I have borrowed his words to explain my approach to writing; when I write a novel it is like I am taking a thought for a walk.

art practices are participatory as well as testimonial.

The Black Artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

Having read all of whitie's books, I wanted to be an authority on them. Having been taught that art was "what white men do," I almost became one, to have a go at it.

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

When Van Gogh painted The Starry Night as a swirling mass of cosmic energy, he may have been painting what he saw with neurotic eyes, but he was also painting what he saw with transcendent eyes. The first gave his painting mere form, the second gave it formless, universal emotion that connects directly to the viewer.

A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts.

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Yoga is the art of challenging the body, mind, intellect and soul to reach the highest potential within you.

a toy made of her own blood,