Quotes About Art

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

Put the baby on the paper.

I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from the context of literature, music, and art. But history has lately been revealed to me as the place where I live, where we all live, side by invisible side with others who - if we get quiet enough and listen carefully enough - will touch us and tell us their stories.

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Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

I only have love affairs with a notebook.

Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth?" The

the ruling class in a just society should be men apprenticed to the art of ruling, drawn from the rational and wise.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

prestige, and business, science and art not yet offering competing fields of endeavor, statecraft remained almost the only outlet for men of energy and purpose

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

It might sound a little glib, but maybe I don't know what a finished poem is. I lean toward the school that a poem is never finished, it's just abandoned.

One of the main activities of the Poet Laureate is to embody poetry. It is really helpful to see someone who presents poetry and makes them want to take poetry home with them.

Art cannot become worn out; from change to change it will alter its type, but each type will be beautiful, and none will be exhaustive.

Thus there opens out to man a magnificent prospect of advance in the acquisition of truth, beauty and goodness; for if these are three aspects of the Ideal, three indefinite realities never to be attained in their entirety, because by their nature they are infinite, the progress of man in science, art and virtue is without possible limit.

The cravings of the soul of man before music and painting were discovered must have resembled the stutterings for impossible utterance in the dumb.

It is undoubtedly true that there is no spirit without substance, no substance without spirit, latent or expressed; but a painting of a man may seem at a distance to be a man.

But they who drink the Muse's breath Pay for the draught with many tears-- Their destiny until their death To seek her shadow down the years.

And after all our toils and dreams and prayers, 'Tis only Love for which the future cares; Labour and fame are steps along Love's way, And art is but the garment that he wears.