Some funny quotes about The Arts
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No
brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music,
no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
The problem was his poetry, which was of the Naturalistic school
and leaned heavily on the S alliteration: "Sad, sorrow-sunk survivors
of a sadistic society, saturated with strong, stiff stench of
stifling strife..."
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues
that are in all the other museums.
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers
are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have
to explain what a writer is.
AHAHAHAHAH this was my favorite!!
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
"... the movie looks it was filmed by a rhesus monkey with a video camera. The
editing looks like it was performed by a rhesus monkey with a Cuisinart.
Apparently, if you're a rhesus monkey, you can really go places in Hollywood."
the television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes
a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren
which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little...
- Ray Bradbury (is big Bradbury fan)
I have the oldest typewriter in the world. It types in pencil.
Never agree to plastic surgery if the doctor's office is full of
portraits by Picasso.
"The length of a film should be directly
related to the endurance of the human bladder." -Hitchhok
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save
if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts
as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and,
instead of bleeding, he sings."
-Ed Gardner
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."
Louis Armstrong.
"I bought an audio cleaning tape. I'm a big fan of theirs."