Artistic Emphasis Quotes

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

In reality, you just don't see many Samoan artists. Culturally, it's just not something that's really emphasized much - at least, hand-drawn art.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.