Quotes About Art

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the 'Oh how banal.'

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a book. You don't need a huge budget or a gaffer or a best boy.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.