Quotes About Art

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about–filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Music is my religion.

those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.

Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.

any form of expression that ceases to be an experience and becomes an art form loses its glowing divinity"

Something is visiting, but it may not be the muse...

Let's pursue excellence together. Let's make art. Let's build the future. Let's be our best selves.

And what he had offered me was exactly everything I most wanted —to make art, to build the future, to help each other become our best selves. "He honors me.

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up.

And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess.

I can see the beauty of the world - a weed growing out of a crack, a sunrise, the glory of art.' He takes comfort in even the grain of wood in the arms of the chair, the gentle coarseness of the linen weave of his shirt, the dust motes dancing in the beam of sunlight, the smell of Marsilio's fresh bread.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the funny short subjects, the half-finished romantic comedy, the boxes of slice-of-life photographs that spoke volumes about the human condition. I wondered how you stop caring about what you've ached over, sweated over. (Thwonk)

En arte, el manierismo concede tanta importancia o más a la manera cómo está hecha la obra que a la esencia de lo que se expresa. También aquí, la acepción del término "forma" como "manera" o "modo" -y por extensión, incluso "moda"1- designa cosas exteriores.