Quotes About Art

wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay and death.

Art is pain. And so is life.

Art is Pain,' I said, mock-seriously. 'And so is life,' Charlie put in. 'Which makes life the art from which we are all afflicted.

Made you a Picasso this morning." Nick smirked, presenting the nutritionist with his tray, upon which he'd arranged his tofu sausage, eggs, and English muffin into the unmistakable shape of a penis.

Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

perhaps the greatest poem ever written

Cultural memory constitutes the stories, events, people, and other phenomena that a society chooses to remember as the building blocks of its collective identity. A nation's gods, its heroes, its villains, its landmarks, its art, its music, its holidays—all these things are part of its cultural memory.

Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To be the creator of others' dreams, it is a responsibility that must not be taken lightly.

A nation's gods, its heroes, its villains, its landmarks, its art, its music, its holidays—all these things are part of its cultural memory.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

GREEK REVIVAL' 1669–1833

Aphrodite of sexual love, Apollo of light and poetry

was forbidden throughout the empire to produce or to display images of Christ

There are wars between different kinds or genres of books, he said. And, as in real wars, the best don't always win; but for us, in the end, there are no losers, although they all fade away.

Jo declaró en una entrevista en 1956: "Un día voy a escribir la historia verdadera de Edward Hopper... Es puro Dostoievski. ¡Oh, es amargura aplastante!". [...] En la misma entrevista dijo que hablar con Edward "era a veces exactamente como tirar una piedra en un pozo, salvo que no hace ruido al caer".

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it." Roger Ebert

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

It is not enough to choose a revolutionary theme to create a revolutionary work of art.

If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie had not lived, we still would have discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. But if J. K. Rowling had not been born, we would never have known about Harry Potter. That is why Master Potter means so much to me. Science may be special but Harry, as a work of art, is more so. Harry Potter is unique.