Walter Pater Quotes

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is science made clear.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

I believe in art.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

I want to bring art into everything.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.