Quotes About Art

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

The reason creativity and craziness go together is that if you're just plain crazy without being able to sing or dance or write good poems, no one is going to want to have babies with you. Your genes will fall by the wayside. Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils. A mindful of thoughts. Like a simple puzzle, he put them together.

Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.

The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.

She gathered the books like clouds and words poured down like rain.

Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places. This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of champagne in summer, and the art of promise-keeping.

He loved her more than Michelangelo.

Tenía lo que llamaba un pequeño surtido de herramientas: Un libro pintado. Un puñado de lápices. Una cabeza llena de ideas. Como si fueran piezas de un puzzle, empezó a encajarlas.

A few of them performed the beautiful childhood art of snickering.

Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the art of forgetting.

Die Noten wurden in ihrem Atem geboren und starben auf ihren Lippen.

Statues with beating hearts.

Todavía toca el acordeón?

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function. McLuhan CD-ROM

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

Art is the sole means of grace in our fallen state.

Advertising is corporate form of art and the goal is to make an effect. Every artist- any painter, any poet or musician sets out to create an effect, he sets a trap to catch somebody`s attention. That is the nature of art.

The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...

Yo soy uno que, cuando Amor me inspira, toma nota. Y del mismo modo que dentro me dicta, así me voy expresando".]

ART said, I want an apology. I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands. (I know ART isn't the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.) ART said, That was unnecessary. In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.

Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157)