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Art Quotes
"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information."
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"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever."
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"Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book."
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"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
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"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
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"Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others."
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"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream."
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"Photographs shape the past in our own image."
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"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what."
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"In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go."
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"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
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"Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones."
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"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century."
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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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"And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence."
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"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."
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"Many of us begin this art with little to no understanding of what we are getting ourselves into. Then, maybe a year or a black belt later, we realize this odyssey we have embarked upon and rest happily in knowing we have chosen a noble struggle.I think we owe most of our successes to our initial ignorance. When we begin, we cannot see the obstacles ahead, and so we march on optimistically. In hindsight, when we look back and connect the dots, we see just how green we were at the start, and it was only our ignorance that upheld us from the crushing despair of the task at hand."
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"Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page."
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"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
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"But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off."
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"My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them."
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"It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned."
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"Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys."
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"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
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"A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object."
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"Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand."
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"The beautiful is always bizarre."
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"When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us."
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"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."
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"Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's"."
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