Quotes About Art

The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

The colors of a fresh garden salad are so extraordinary, no painter's pallet can duplicate nature's artistry.

Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks.

"Most poems are never finished," (I was defensive). He sighed: "No, most poems are never started."

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.

I cant even find the perfect brush so I can paint whats going through my mind. Racing gainst myself but Im a couple steps behind.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

With a canvas Im a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Howard Stern -- the uglier, more disgusting I draw him, the more he likes me.

It is in he nature of love, and in the nature of art, to be complex, disturbing, taxing.

When it comes to a subject like love and art, or daily life and the great work, there are no answers, no conclusions, only conversations, meditations -- and the shining work.

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

Music (Definition; Noun): The artistic organization of sound for the joy and experience of listening.

It sounds as if we're assessing the quality of a work of art in terms of its attributes, but in fact we're doing the opposite—deciding first which painting is the best, and only then inferring from its attributes the metrics of quality.

But really what we're saying is that the Mona Lisa is famous because it's more like the Mona Lisa than anything else.

There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch.

La cultura de masas no ofrece a sus clientes una catarsis emocional ni tampoco una experiencia estética, porque estas cosas requieren esfuerzo. La cultura de masas es, en la mejor de las hipótesis, un reflejo vulgarizado de la Alta Cultura y, en el peor, un íncubo moral, un Kulturkatzenjammer

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.