Plato Quotes

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.