Quotes About Art

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.

Music is enough for a whole lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa

The pail containing the fish was part of the vertical axis of the painting and rested on a round table held up by a single foot.

I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.

You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Dr. Atkinson thinks it was as far away as two thousand years ago that the Irish began to grace their then ancient poetic art with their new Invention of rhyme. From the Latin verses of Colm and other earliest Irish saints, we have positive proof that, anyhow, rhyme was in use in Ireland in the very earliest Christian times — both vowel rhyme (assonance) and consonantal rhyme called comharda.

Un viaggiatore americano ha scritto: "Italy is the land of human nature".

Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.

Being a theomorphic creature, man is himself a work of art. The human soul when purified and dressed in the garment of spiritual virtues is itself the highest kind of beauty in this world, reflecting directly the Divine Beauty.

Traditional art extended itself to the whole of life and left an imprint of beauty upon the everyday existence of human beings rather than being concerned only with paintings that we put in museums and at best visit a few Sundays each year.

The materialistic conception of nature did not go unchallenged during the nineteenth century, particularly in art and literature where the romantic movement sought to re-establish a more intimate bond with nature and the indwelling spirit within nature. The philosophical Romantic poets like Novalis devoted themselves most of all to the theme of nature and its significance for man.

Art comes to life when emotions dance with thoughts on realities stage

Blessed are those whose breaths are faithful to the art of dance

Dance is the timeless interpretation of life

Hearts dance once again when the canvas of ice is painted with the brush of skates

Lose yourself beyond the identity of names, there is much to express, not with eyes or lips, but with the surge of dancing steps

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces." [ Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

I do my best impression of a pen and when every problem looks like a page I commit ink to paper