Quotes about Art

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

I know of no significant advance in science that did not require major inputs from both cerebral hemispheres. This is not true for art, where apparently there are no experiments by which capable, dedicated and unbiased observers can determine to their mutual satisfaction which works are great.

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

Kissing on screen isn't easy.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.

Remember that to these worlds and these beings and these ages we are to be the messengers of the grace and wisdom and glory of God. In that view the future loses its sense of dread, and one looks on to the new opportunities for art, and music, and poetry, and above all perchance of preaching, that are coming to the ransomed ones when the discipline of time is merged into the fitness of eternity, with reverent and holy desire.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.