Vincent Price Quotes

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

I really prize and love great painting.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Art is science in the flesh.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Life and art are not two different things.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.