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Art Quotes
"Get me a cappuccino, with toasties, flavored in Jalapeno.'Anything special for the cappuccino?He asked, the waiter chivalrous.'Follow the ideal doing, grind the beans just before brewing.Use spring water, for softened water, makes a horror.A parley perfect, between the coffee, and the milk, with some, brown sugar thick. (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?"
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"I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live."
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"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."
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"Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe."
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"Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious."
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"I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form."
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"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training."
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"When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel."
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"It is thus that man, with fervent imagination, can endue the rough stone with loveliness, forge the mis-shapen metal into a likeness of all that wins our hearts by exceeding beauty, and breathe into a dissonant trump soul-melting harmonies. The mind of man-that mystery, which may lend arms against itself, teaching vain lessons of material philosophy, but which, in the very act, shows its power to play with all created things, adding the sweetness of its own essence to the sweetest, taking its ugliness from the deformed."
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"The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in the memory, was a succession of brilliant phrases, book titles, dying cadences that breathed life, pure alertness, along the spine."
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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
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"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person."
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"Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about."
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"The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations."
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"From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections."
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"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue."
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
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"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."
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"Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world."
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"For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints."
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"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
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"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
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"The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art."
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"The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art."
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"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head."
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"It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again."
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"The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible."
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"In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color."
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"Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, "Why does this stuff, these hand-painted hallucinations that don't do nothin' but confuse the puddin' out of a perfectly reasonable wall, why does it mean so much to you? It was a poor connection, but he could have sworn he heard her say, "In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."
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"Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization."
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"Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'."
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