Quotes About Art

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.

When you tell me you have been satisfied at a modern theatre, you prove that it is not only the art which has degenerated, but that a proportion of the audience has degenerated also. But do not let this depress you.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Writing becomes a form of protest against the incontestable ravages of time. The poet takes revenge on mortality, defeating cruelty and saving what she can by thinking the unthinkable and presiding over her own creation. The joy of writing stands against the bitter knowledge of just how much of the world cannot be controlled outside the work of art. This is the art of poetry trying to kill time. "Probably

The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said. Osip Mandelstam suggested that if a poem can be paraphrased, then the sheets haven't been rumpled, poetry hasn't spent the night. The words are an (erotic) visitation, a means to an end, but also an end in and of themselves. The poets is first of all a language worker. A maker. A shaper of language.

I don't think that we should underestimate the capacity of tenderness that poetry opens within us.

Poetry is a form of necessary speech.

The poet of Whit-manesque ambitions must find a way to present something that has as its sole purpose taking things away.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.