Quotes about Art

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Sometimes the breaking of things is cruel, and sometimes it is necessary, and sometimes it is just an accident." "My mother was a painting in the storm, convinced down to the last fibers of canvas and the last drop of paint on the brush that the rain was an important part of the making of a masterpiece.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

I began learning how to dance when I was 3 and a half years old.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.