Art Quotes
-
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
-
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
-
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
-
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
-
In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"
-
To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
-
Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.
-
The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.
-
God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
-
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
-
Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
-
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.
-
Art class was my safe haven.
-
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.
-
Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.
-
Making reality real is art's responsibility.
-
Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.
-
I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.
-
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
-
No arts, no letters - no society.
-
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
-
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
-
I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.
-
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
