Quotes About Art

Disaster is my muse.

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

It was Strindberg, or more exactly, A Dream Play, that incited me to write for the theater.

Theatre as I conceive it is wholly and absolutely tied to performance. I think that performance is only the projection to the senses of situations and images.

If by some unimaginable process works of beauty could be produced by machinery, as a symmetrical color pattern is produced by a kaleidoscope, we might think them beautiful till we knew their origin, after which we should be rather disposed to describe them as ingenious.

when you finish this chapter, go listen to his Saint Matthew Passion or Mass in B Minor, the piece I am listening to as I write these words. You will understand why some call him the "Fifth Evangelist.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."[7]

the teacher transfers the spirit of the right art from heart to heart, that it may be illumined.

Your why is the sculpture inside the block of jade.

That's because you Westerners see art as being created from nothing. In the East, we believe the art already exists, and our job is simply to reveal it. It is not visible because we add something, but because we take away the parts that are not the art.

Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.

Probably the biggest influence on me, strange though it may sound, was the 70s, a decade of invention. Growing up then had a huge impact on me. People wanted to experiment and were hungry for change. I was influenced by the literature and art of the time; listening to John Peel and Annie Nightingale and watching 'Monty Python.'

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.

I haven't been to Oxbridge. I haven't even been to a London art school. My qualifications are pretty meagre for such a brief, but I just trust in my sense of what I'm interested in and my mission of clarity.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

My hands look like my dad's and my mom's put together. She's a piano player, he was an artist, and I use the creative qualities I got from them in my fighting. But I don't just destroy with my hands; I also create: I cook and make art and garden.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.