Quotes About Art

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Sometimes we get too caught up in wanting to do that one movie that will get seen and approved and nominated, that we lose sight that there are so many other movies that are worth your time.

Time is not important, but art is.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.