Quotes About Art

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

A lot of time, the music reflects reality, which reflects music.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.