Quotes About Art

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.