Quotes About Art

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

Any time is the time to make a poem.