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  • 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. -- Patton Oswalt
  • If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. -- John Dewey
  • I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. -- John Quincy Adams
  • I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing. -- Frank Gehry
  • I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. -- Kenneth Koch
  • The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul. -- Thomas Moore
  • Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. -- Pierre Loti
  • I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain. -- Jonathan Davis
  • Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. -- Victoria Wood
  • Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. -- Tunde Adebimpe
  • Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. -- William Blake
  • I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. -- Maurice Blanchot
  • I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. -- Brandon Boyd
  • I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. -- Henry Flynt
  • I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. -- John Francis
  • People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. -- Steven Pinker
  • I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects. -- Mordicai Gerstein
  • Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me. -- Brandon Boyd
  • It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more. -- Alice Cooper
  • Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. -- Brian Eno
  • The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. -- Ikue Mori
  • I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes. -- Brian Eno
  • Literature is painting, architecture, and music. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind. -- Sonia Orwell
  • The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music. -- Jim Jarmusch
  • Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. -- Kenneth Noland
  • Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. -- Ernst Haas
  • Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors. -- Yanni
  • A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear. -- Miles Davis
  • There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. -- Umberto Boccioni
  • Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. -- Herbert Spencer
  • I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing." -- Harvey Pekar
  • Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting. -- Danny Fox
  • There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting. -- Heinrich Heine
  • In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. -- Paul Gauguin
  • This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. -- Ansel Adams
  • When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something. -- Kate Bush
  • When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting. -- Brian Eno
  • Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. -- William Blake
  • There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • "Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc. -- Matthew Carter
  • The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. -- D.T. Suzuki
  • Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. -- David Hume
  • Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious. -- Van Cliburn
  • Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. -- Walter J. Phillips
  • Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. -- Herbert Spencer
  • I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. -- Harrison Birtwistle
  • I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. -- James Gray
  • The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. -- Marie-Antoine Careme
  • There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. -- Julia Child
  • Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. -- Yann Martel
  • Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. -- Yann Martel
  • I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made. -- Sophie Blackall
  • As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. -- Rebecca Miller
  • I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music. -- Sean Scully
  • I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano. -- Danny Fox
  • Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly. -- Paul Klee
  • Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money. -- James Gleick
  • In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. -- Amos Oz
  • I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint. -- Chris Mars
  • Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all. -- Billy Boyd
  • Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. -- Fernando Botero
  • You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. -- Ken Robinson
  • A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. -- Robert McKee
  • I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly. -- Kurt Wagner
  • Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is. -- Larry Mullen, Jr.
  • Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. -- Marguerite Duras
  • Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content. -- Robert Motherwell
  • I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow. -- Erica Jong
  • Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein. -- Eva Hoffman
  • I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. -- Michael Graves
  • It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. -- Kim Gordon
  • As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. -- James Whistler
  • Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become. -- Virginia Woolf
  • I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it. -- Yves Saint Laurent
  • It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution. -- Robert Genn
  • The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space. -- Curt Sachs
  • I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures. -- Gerhard Richter
  • I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. -- David Bowie
  • I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya. -- Igor Stravinsky
  • A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts -- Joseph Addison
  • Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
  • Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all. -- Jacob Nordby
  • I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind. -- Chico Hamilton
  • I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. -- Chico Hamilton
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