Quotes About Art

Picasso said "good artists copy but great artists steal.

Salvador Dali said "those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

What is imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free.

Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free.

good artists copy but great artists steal.

thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.

Salvador Dali said "those who

Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias, my brother. Every window a tenor leans, there are sopranos in the olive branches. And all across the globe the world turns to crescendos.

To the Sith, violence was an art form. To Master Satele, it seemed like life itself.

Writing is controlled substance. It acts with the least mediation and strongest effect.

again. 'I do remember terrible dark things, and loss, and noise, but it is like one of those terrible dark pictures that hang in churches, God knows why, because you cannot see a thing in them.' 'Mrs McNulty, that is a beautiful description of traumatic memory.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Statt Klopapier und Nudeln sollten die Menschen lieber Kultur hamstern. Ich hoffe sehr, dass unsere Supermärkte für geistige Nahrung bald wieder öffnen!

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.

The artist should ask: "How does one challenge this? How does one make life meaningful?

All art is an imitation of nature.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Chico, ¿a quién ofendo con eso, si son mis plumas?

Dispara, Sokolov, sobre este mundo lujoso y ridículo. y cuando en esos espejos cuarteados por tus trazos se dibujen como una sobreimpresión las nínfulas al retocarse los labios, que tu ubicuidad sea el reflejo multiplicado de los vicios de la tierra.

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

I decided to "find myself" in monumental sculpture. Alas, monumental sculpture is a very conservative genre. The cause is the monumentality itself. You can secretly write novels and symphonies. You can secretly experiment on canvas. But just try to hide a twelve-foot-high sculpture!

As a schoolboy I liked to draw the leaders of the world proletariat - especially Marx. Just start smearing an ordinary splotch of ink around and you've already got a resemblance...