Quotes About Art

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Robert Bresson

I'd rather people feel a film before understanding it.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .

Typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn.

What so wild as words are?

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least.

We're made so that we loveFirst when we see them painted, things we have passedPerhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;And so they are better, painted—better to us,Which is the same thing. Art was given for that.

Open my heart, and you will seeGraved inside of it, "Italy."

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive.

Rafael made a century of sonnets.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy".

Dear Sir, I'll gie ye some advice, You'll tak it no uncivil: You shouldna paint at angels, man, But try and paint the Devil. To paint an angel's kittle wark, Wi' Nick there's little danger; You'll easy draw a lang-kent face, But no sae weel a stranger.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.

Software architecture is the art of drawing lines that I call boundaries. Those boundaries separate software elements from one another, and restrict those on one side from knowing about those on the other.

Part of the art of developing a software architecture is carefully separating those policies from one another, and regrouping them based on the ways that they change.