Quotes about Art
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
— Jon Bon Jovi
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Discretion plays a major part in making up the salesman's art, for truths that no one can believe are calculated to deceive.
— Dorothy Sayers
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
— Oscar Wilde
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
— Vincent van Gogh
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
— Michelangelo
So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.
— Vincent van Gogh
The beauty of creation, to which art responds and which it tries to express, imitate, and highlight, is not simply the beauty it possesses in itself but the beauty it possesses in view of what is promised to
— NT Wright
A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.
— Joyce Meyer
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
— John Guare
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.
— Vincent van Gogh
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
— Vincent van Gogh