Quotes about Art

In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.

I love Instagram and photography.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .