Quotes About Art

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

My muse must come to me on union time.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.