Quotes about Art
If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.
— Boots Riley
Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape
— Karl Barth
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
— Aristotle
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
— Martha Graham
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
— John Lennon
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
— Henry David Thoreau
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don't compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
— James Franco
We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
— Walt Disney