Quotes About Art

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

He is the sort who are all right so long as they keep to things—books, pictures—but kill when they come to people.

To speak against London is no longer fashionable. The earth as an artistic cult has had its day, and the literature of the near future will probably ignore the country and seek inspiration from the town.

He felt that nonsense and beauty have close connections,—closer connections than Art will allow,—and that both would remain when his own heaviness and his own ugliness had perished.

There was no one even to tell her which, of all the sepulchral slabs that paved the nave and transepts, was the one that was really beautiful, the one that had been most praised by Mr. Ruskin.

There are such violets in England, but not so many. Nor are there so many in Art, for no painter has the courage.

he dragged his words painfully from the poets

Music is spiritual. The music business is not." —Claudio Monteverdi

Zašto da provodim revoluciju kad ne?u mo?i plesati?

Yet as I get older—and my Art fades—I find myself increasingly irked by the small matters, the minor annoyances that once I laughed off or brushed aside.

a page is not a four sided white void in which to practice zeroness.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

I think that much of this criticism fails to take seriously the continuity of themes running through Baldwin's body of work: that he continued to examine questions of American identity and history, railed against the traps of categories that narrowed our frames of reference, insisted that we reject the comfort and illusion of safety that the country's myths offered, and struggled mightily with the delicate balance between his advocacy and his art.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Well. You can start painting now. Just get a piece of paper and a pencil. And drive the pencil like you were dancing

I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.