Quotes About Art

The poetry, you see, was when he moved. -- Dream Done Green

Long-established totalitarian governments fear any kind of free expression. A sculpture can be a manifesto, a manuscripted adventure can double as a cry for rebellion.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A

It is easier to think in a foreign language than to feel in it. Therefore no art is more stubbornly national than poetry.

The boundary between the known and the unknown constantly shifts. The other side is the "mysterious." That other side intrigues us, it stimulates us, it provokes us, it haunts us. And it produces new science, and new art.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

Quitting my day job and starting my life as a writer was a tremendous risk. It was a fool's leap, a shot in the dark. But anything of any value in our lives, whether that be a career, a work of art, a relationship, will always start with such a leap. And in order to be able to make it you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. (...) Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions that we shall ever take.

Like it or not, horror is part of our media, part of our culture, part of our life.

Je crois que la magie est de l'art, et que l'art est littéralement de la magie. L'art, comme la magie, consiste à manipuler les symboles, les mots ou les images pour produire des changements dans la conscience.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

what I preferred was not statues but the bird in the statue's hair.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe . . . I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

The way that we draw faces says so much about the way that we see ourselves and the way that we see each other.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

My music and words are art they are timeless, my music and choice of words will fit within the many futures in the future times and years to come. -MillYentei

The desire to write grows with writing.

Even perfection is a myth. There is no evidence of a perfect world, a perfect man or a perfect family anywhere on earth. Perfection, be it Rama Rajya or Camelot, exists only in mythology. Yet everyone craves for it. This craving inspires art, establishes empires, sparks revolutions and motivates leaders. Such is the power of myth.

In the famous temple sculptures of Khajuraho, one finds beautiful women disrobing themselves on the excuse that a scorpion is climbing up their thighs.