Quotes About Art

The camera can photograph thought.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

Art destroys silence.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones

I had to write a requiem for all those who died, who had suffered. (...) But how could I do it? I was constantly under suspicion then, and critics counted what percentage of my symphonies was in a major key and what percentage in a minor key. That oppressed me, it deprived me of the will to compose.

The Seventh and Eighth symphonies are my requiem.

There should always be a harmonious combination of the senses and the intellect.

I don't see anything shameful in [gypsy songs] as opposed to, say, Prokofiev, who pretended to be enraged when he heard such music. He probably had a better musical education than I di. But at least I'm not a snob.

A mi dobro pišemo samo ono što nismo mogli da ne napišemo.

A mi dobo pišemo samo ono što nismo mogli da ne napišemo.

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line. Everything was a business--even art. She'd written the songs, but she wouldn't be able to truly own them. Not if she wanted the rest of the world to hear them.

They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank—to distract themselves from the abyss.

daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

Her dissertation on Dutch women painters of the Golden Age sits unfinished in her apartment, a half-typed sheet of paper mildewing in the mouth of a Remington. It's been months since she worked on it and she sometimes finds herself staring at the machine's bullnose profile or the chrome-plated carriage return, thinking: Remington also makes rifles.

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If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Sometimes the distinction between theft and homage is murky.

They see an unremittingly sad film, and they think it's depressing, whereas we're fucking enthralled, because the catharsis for us is in witnessing great art, seeing the undiluted truth, in the shared recognition that life is pain.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.