Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

Twyla Tharp

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

41 Stories

¿El arte de amar ? Saber unir el temperamento de un vampiro y la discreción de una anémona.

All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

But as an escort it’s our duty to hold their attention and play with their heads. The one between their ears and the one in their pants.

Artful Attractions

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Art as Experience

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

Advice to Young Musicians

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit. (What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Arte poética

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

Terry Zwigoff

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Victor Hugo

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

Vaclav Klaus

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'

Victor Pinchuk

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

Virginia Postrel

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Vidal Sassoon

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Walt Disney

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

Warren Farrell

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

Werner Herzog