Quotes about Art

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape.

I have been told that there are two human responses to the perception of chaos: naming and violence. . . There is, however, a third response to chaos, which I have not heard about, which is stillness. Such stillness can be passivity and dumbfoundedness; it can be paralytic fear. But it can also be art.