Quotes About Art

In Hindu art, a woman depicted holding a lotus bud is deemed a virgin; when she holds a lotus in bloom, she is regarded as mature and experienced.

In imagery, Lakshmi is often shown beside Ganesha, even though traditionally Lakshmi and Ganesha belong to rival religious sects, the Vaishnavas and the Shaivas. Together, Lakshmi and Ganesha evoke affluence and abundance. Poster art of Lakshmi with Ganesha

Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.

In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

They brought home to me the central reason why books have meant so much to me. It is not because of my pleasure in the art of writing, though that has been very great. It is because they have taken me so far beyond the narrow limits of my own experience and have so greatly enlarged my sense of the complexity of life: of its consuming darkness, and also – thank God – of the light which continues to struggle through.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

Absolutely," she said. "Artists use them

All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I like the feeling of being about to confront an experience and resolve it as art. —Eudora Welty

The poem is smarter than the poet and more rebellious. A strong poem will override its author's initial intentions.

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

English may be the language everyone needs to know, but Italian is the language people want to learn. With

Americans see Italian "come una lingua polisensoriale capace di aprire le porte al bello" ("as a multi sensory language able to open the gates to beauty").

All Italian cities have ghosts, but Florence's seem to me to be always speaking. As

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Culturally it means a return from the newspaper and the radio to the book, from feverish activity to unhurried leisure, from dispersion to concentration, from sensationalism to reflection, from virtuosity to art, from snobbery to modesty, from extravagance to moderation.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.