Quotes about Art

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.

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.

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 . . .

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.