Art Quotes
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Well, art is not communist - not bourgeois eitherIt's no club and has no party lineNot wild nights make an artist - not drugs or manifestosIt's art - HA HA - that's no secretThe one who makes art - he's the artist..
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.
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I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.
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Art has absolutely changed my life.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
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Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.
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I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.
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Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
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The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
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The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.
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Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.
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In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.
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It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
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The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
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The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
