Quotes About Art

I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...

art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

the painter, Cezanne, would leave blank spaces on his canvas when he couldn't account for the brush strokes, or the color"--- "How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random".

Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include—like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.

Art that is based on scenes from the Bible is not better than art that is based on scenes from, say, Shakespeare or Homer simply because it is based on the Bible.

Prior to taking up philosophy I had spent half a decade as an art student and I am quite sure that what persuaded me of the importance and veracity of these ancient ideas was my art school education. For art making is all about discerning and creating structures. When later, as a philosophy student, I read Wittgenstein's instruction to attend to the differences, I heard an echo of the art teacher's command to look at the gaps between objects and draw them also.

If the birds sing, the nudes are not far off.

Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from heaven To purge the dross away.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

burnt by the sun of your mouth, I'm unable to speak or paint you with words

I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

I play a piano of words—its icy tinkle echoes through your halls

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

Merkel is the opposite of ostentatious. She has kept her small cottage near her home town of Templin, goes to her customary hairdresser in Berlin and from time to time is seen grocery shopping. She devours art. She sometimes phones her one or two favourite museum directors directly to ask them if they wouldn't mind staying open a little longer so that she can see a particular exhibition without any fuss.

Al señor Evans le gustaría que dibujaseis vuestro autorretrato —anunció—. Algo que muestre cómo os veis a vosotros mismos. [...] No había dejado de usar el lápiz negro, y lo que había creado era muy revelador: un par de manos agarradas a unos barrotes que cruzaban de arriba a abajo la hoja. No había cara ni cuerpo. Sólo dedos aferrados a gruesos barrotes negros.