Daryl Hall Quotes

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

The older I get the better I used to be!

Old cartoonists never retire, they just erase away.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

My children and their generation are not aware of the stardom I had enjoyed during my younger days.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'Go Kanye, Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye, I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye, The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye...

We have seen better days.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.