Quotes by Art I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. Adria Petty music-lovestoriesart I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).' I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting. This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros's compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood. Adrian Matejka stylespringart I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that. There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work. Adrian Tomine differencesrealart There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas. Adrian Tomine expressionpeopleart Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me. Adrian Tomine realattitudeart There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly. Adrian Tomine dedicationphonesart Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows. Adriana Trigiani soarspiritart Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure. Adriana Trigiani grandchildrentreasureart I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. Adriana Trigiani painbelieveart You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better! Adriano Directo Emperado martial-artsbloodart Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. Adrienne Monnier construction-sitesfashionart Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. Adrienne Rich dinner-tablemeanart Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost? Adrienne Rich love-lifegriefart One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves. Adrienne Rich skinsbodyart There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist. Adrienne Rich simplecountryart In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination. Adrienne Rich voiceimaginationart You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry. Adrienne Rich readingwritingart There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle. Adrienne Rich inspirationsongart As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts. Adrienne Rich effortorderart I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. Adrienne Rich dignityartthinking«345678910111213»
