Quotes About Art

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

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Every work of art is a request for love and attention.

Camera's don't take pictures, people do.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.' Leopold Stokowski

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, "I did that.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

Is it terrible to not understand a thing, if it's beautiful?

How can you write if you can't cry?

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.

Seduction is a magical art form that women use to conquer men.

A sher is made of two poetical lines bearing a complete meaning.

Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y'rself from any system of control is to do something useless.

Stories don't have points. They're lies for keeping the truth in. They're sort of rounded, not pointy at all.

Tattoo parties: just like a regular party – but with a permanent hangover.

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something.

When George was a kid he used to follow me and my first girlfriend, Cynthia—who became my wife—around. We'd come out of art school, and he'd be hovering around like those kids at the gate of the Dakota now.

One of her best songs ever is 'Annabel Lee,' which she just released a few years ago on her underrated 2011 album In My Dreams . It's a six-minute sex-and-death trip with a lyric from one of her hot dead rock-and-roll boyfriends: Edgar Allan Poe. The key line is: 'The moon never beams without bringing me dreams.' Poe might have written that line in 1849, but he clearly always meant it for Stevie Nicks to sing.