Quotes About Art

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.

Broadway is really my life.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.

Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.