Robert Lowell Quotes

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I will preach with my brush.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

What is art but a way of seeing?

When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.