Quotes About Art

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

I'd love to be an artist. My mum is so talented and she used to design her own greetings cards. I'm crap at drawing though.

Music composition was a creative call for me, and it gives me a kick. But I never thought that I would ever sing professionally, even though I used to sing a lot.

Though all festivals are important, this Cannes Festival starts off the season.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I think I have a responsibility as a film-maker to bring not only controversial subject matter to the screen but also to inspire a thought process.