Quotes about Art

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

I love theatre, but it is losing its value in Punjab. There are no funds or government back up.

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

My whole life is a theater piece.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

She never understood why painters made ugly things. A, who wanted them in their house? This guy, obviously . . . who had no taste, or anyway was stuck in the nineties. And 2, it seemed like showing off. Like, hey, this is ugly! In your face. People were rude and called it art.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.