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Art Quotes
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
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"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."
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"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation."
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"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
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"The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."
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"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."
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"Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God]."
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"But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry."
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"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author."
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"Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched."
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"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show."
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"But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art."
Art,
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
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"I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me."
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"This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered."
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"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied."
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"He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers."
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"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
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"The beautiful is always bizarre."
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"Music Doesn't Need Interpreters and Translators."
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"A great Musician Falls a Sleep PLAYING HIS Favorite Solo on and on endlessly."
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"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow."
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"Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord.Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim:Know and be still.Inside the Double Worldall voices becomeeternally mild."
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