Quotes about Art

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Its the critic's job to interpret the artist, even to the artist himself.

Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.

The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention

Thousands of ordinary people were part of this metropolis, but their homes would have been perishable wattle and thatch, stuccoed with lime and mud. Every trace of their living has returned to the earth now, except for the limestone temples of art and worship. The things made of ambition, which rise higher than daily bread.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face.