Artistic Commentary Quotes

Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

there is no politically neutral art.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

Music is always a commentary on society.

LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?