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Art Quotes
"Starlight beats when heart twinklesYouthful sky beyond cloudy wrinklesMuse of glory to flame the nightVerse inscribed as written light."
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"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time."
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"In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love."
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"The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin."
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"Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something."
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"The intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write."
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"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."
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"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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"Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form."
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"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."
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"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
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"Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within."
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"Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!"
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"Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years."
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"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
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"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world."
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"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."
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"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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