Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

It’s a tricky art, working with them in their purest form,” she mused. “Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex.” It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.

The Fiery Heart

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits Will lift thee to the level of themselves.

Flower-de-Luce, and the Masque of Pandora

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

A Familiar Rain

...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...

A Familiar Rain

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

Faust

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.

Great Expectations

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

The Golden Lily

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

Great Desires for Absent Things

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art.

How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of murdering the memory.

Higher Ground

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger

The Bookshop Book

If you’re a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

Gatekeepers and people that work in marketing are suckling pigs at the helm of Satan’s phallus. They are the death of art, and ultimately the death of the human spirit.

The Book of 10,000 Truths

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.

Audra McDonald

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

Damien Hirst

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Giuseppe Verdi

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

Jeremy Paxman