Quotes About Art

I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely.

I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street Elementary School in South-Central Los Angeles. I was in the fifth grade.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

Music means life and love in its purest form. It's about capturing your emotions and celebrating everything about life.

Music is instant gratification in its purest form.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

In a perfect world, art and commerce, I think, could be in vacuums and coexist in full purity.

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river.

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought. Brecht and Weill forever changed musical theatre; Kaethe Kollwitz and others changed German perceptions of the purposes of art.

When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand alone as a work of art that justifies using the story for its own purposes.