Top 1200 Art Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you become attuned to what art does through materiality and so you begin to look to that in contemporary art as well. And anyway, I do think that matching one's experience with what you're looking at and questioning what you're looking inevitably involves materiality, just like it involves the sense of place.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

I'm here to actually deliver art and deliver the creation, you know, wherever the music brings somebody.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

In art, in music, in everything, I think the more you experience, the more people can empathize with you.

I'm really into music, I'm really into art, and I want to keep that fire alive.

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all - how fast it is, how many songs it can hold, and all that - he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just written for money or commercial reasons. Sad music can be the most uplifting thing in the world.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.