Quotes About Art

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time.

I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasn't easy.

A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I'm like, I created art.

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.