Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Guy Davenport

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Henry Rollins

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Henry Rollins

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Jacob Bronowski

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Judy Chicago

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

Junot Diaz

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Junot Diaz

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Jean-Luc Godard

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

Jim Lee

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Jonas Mekas

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Jonathan Miller

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Kami Garcia

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

Kristen Wiig

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Laurie Anderson

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Leslie Fiedler

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford