Quotes About Art

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

What's the problem?" Fuck it, Art thought. Too late now. So he answered, "That we look at 'these people' like 'targets.

looks out at a wave breaking like a white pencil being drawn across a blue piece of paper.

Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce.

Shut up! We can't hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis

Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce.

In the contemplation of nudes, we congratulate ourselves upon the beauty of which human beings are capable. They reassure us about ourselves, about Being. We are a little lower than the angels, true, but notice that we can get along without that suspect radiance, equal parts paint and literature, on which the angels lean so heavily. The human body is, or can be, a sufficiency.

Like a lot of painters in this century, you seem to enjoy lifting things out of the world, in this case words or phrases, and then... And then, sung to and Simonized, theyre thrown into the mesh.

I enjoy doing layoutproblems of design. I could very cheerfully be a typographer.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

However much the writer might long to be, in his work, simple, honest, and straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, and straightforward, nothing much happens: he speaks the speakable, whereas what we are looking for is the as-yet unspeakable, the as-yet unspoken.

Every writer in the country can write a beautiful sentence, or a hundred. What I am interested in is the ugly sentence that is also somehow beautiful.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare.

In newspapers and magazines I read about what's happening. Apparently Facebook exists to extinguish friendship. E-mail and texting destroy the post office. eBay replaces garage sales. Amazon eviscerates bookstores. Technology speeds, then doubles its speed, then doubles it again. Art takes naps.

A sculptor can tap-tap-tap all day and night, he often said, and remain lazy.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.