Quotes About Art

He'd told her about his asphalt water lilies and his sidewalk Van Goghs

This was her version of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll—dating a chalk artist, and teaching school.

My kids are tough," said Nina. He scoffed. "I work in Harvard Square. My art's been peed on.

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

Scream in despair over Meat and Metal Microphone

Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.

robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

The poetry is like a rhythmic articulation of feeling." —Allen Ginsberg

but I will die only for poetry, that will save the world

If anybody wants a statement of values - it is this, that I am ready to die for poetry and for the truth that inspires poetry - and will do so in any case - as all men, wether they like it or not-.

Say what you will, he proves to us, in spite of the most debasing experiences that life can offer a man, the spirit of love survives to ennoble our lives if we have the wit and the courage and the faith – and the art! to persist.

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet.- Hale

Without the fingerprint of the heart, it would only be sound... not music.

Filipinos have an aversion to blank walls.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes

Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.

severed heads,' Cosca was explaining, 'never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic, sensibility,They can make a point a great deal more eloquently then those still attached.

Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature.