art Quotes

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.