Quotes About Art

Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.

A toy-maker made a toy wife and a toy child. He made a toy house and some toy years.

That diamond encrusted goat's skull is the height of good taste!

La ciencia, (...), involucra la búsqueda de similaridades entre cosas que aparentemente son diferentes. El arte, por el contrario, debe buscar diferencias entre cosas que aparentemente son iguales. La ciencia busca lo general, mientras que el arte va por lo único.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

In meditation we experience the silence from which all creativity springs. The act of creation—whether from a blank page to a poem, an empty space to a building, a thought to a song or film—starts with a void. The more intimate a relationship we can build with that silent void, the more clearly the art can shine through and spring forth. Meditation is the vehicle to connect to that silence." —Rick Rubin, Malibu 2013

A KZ-ekben nem írtak nagy verseket. Ha nem így volna, még azt mondhatnánk, hogy a lágerek jók voltak valamire, mondjuk megtisztulásra, aminek nagy m?vészet lett az eredménye. De semmire se voltak jók.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.

The most beautiful videos come from reading poetry. And they're in your head.

WHAT IS A POEM? Such slight changes in air pressure, Tongue and palate, And the difference in teeth. Transparent words. Why do I want to say ochre, Or what is green-yellow? The sisters of those leaves on the ground Still lisp on the branches. Why do I want to imitate them? Having come this far With a handful of alphabet, I am forces, With these few blocks, To invent the universe.

I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.

Some things were made to be felt

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

This is a painting that is at best one-third "I love religion so I'm gonna paint my favorite religious figures enjoying a meal" and at least two-thirds "Bro, my vanishing point is off the hook, seriously, check out my wall rectangles, you don't even know.

Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.

Well—er—you see, my face never changes," I replied evasively, "but there's this portrait of me that ages instead.

He more than once asked a prospective client, 'Do you realise that the only thing you can spend a hundred thousand dollars on without incurring an obligation to spend a great deal more for its upkeep is a picture? Once you've bought it, it costs you only a few hundred dollars every fifteen years for cleaning.' It was a revolutionary sales argument, and one admirably adapted to American royalty.

The fact is,' Mrs Hearst said, in relating the episode, 'you couldn't buy anything from Duveen! Everything was either in reserve for somebody else or he had promised it to his wife or for some reason he wasn't ready to sell it yet.