Quotes About Art

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

I think about it as not so much 'I need to get it out of me,' it's not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Caste hasn't been a part of creative thoughts and it never will be.

I strongly believe that writing brings out one's thoughts and expressions well.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

In 1909 he saw a vision of Christ on the wall of his shabby room in Montmartre; in 1915 he converted formally to Roman Catholicism with Picasso as his godfather. In

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

How did the human eye so arrange for itself the lines and colors of the human creature (surely a comparatively ugly animal?) that they wavered and re-formed into this shape we have conceived to be beauty? Strange illusion!

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

In Turkey, ancient drawings that are two thousand or more years old show djinn in half human-half reptilian forms with horns, scaly skin, lizard-like eyes, and claws for hands. This depiction is similar to the Christian description of devils and demons. It is also interesting to note that Islamic art dating from only eight hundred years ago shows the djinn as more human-like.