Quotes about Art

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.

Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The difficult pastoral art is to encourage people to grow in excellence and to live selflessly, at one and the same time to lose the self and find the self. It is paradoxical, but it is not impossible.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.