Quotes About Art

I collected enough fragments of the past to make a reconstruction of it, which must have borne as much relation to the real thing as a mosaic portrait would to the original.

a flayed body untangled string by string and hung to the wall, an agonized banner displayed for the same reason flags are.

Every inch of land there is so contested," I observed, more to myself than to him. "How many lives have been lost fighting over Jerusalem? Yet it is not special in terms of architecture, or location, or works of art.

There is no respect for hidden music

Poetry consoles me at the same time it inflames me, I said. 'You should know better,' he sniffed. 'It's poison for the soul!

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla later called his daughters Luce and Elettricità in memory of what he saw at the Paris Exposition. (A third daughter was Elica—Propellor—after the modern machinery he also admired.)

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.