Art Quotes
“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”
“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.”
-- Nick Cave
“Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.”
-- Henry Rollins
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
-- Albert Einstein
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
-- Lady Gaga