Quotes About Art

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

The idea of the painter and the sculptor is undoubtedly that perfect and excellent example of the mind, by imitation of which imagined form all things are represented which fall under human sight.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Wit will shineThrough the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

You may not make sense out of the incomprehensible, but you can make art.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

Life is short and the art long.

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.