Quotes About Art

In fact, when the period in which a man of talent is obliged to live is dull and stupid, the artist, though unconsciously, is haunted by a nostalgia of some past century.

The bourgeoisie, reassured, strutted about in good humor, thanks to its wealth and the contagion of its stupidity. The result of its accession to power had been the destruction of all intelligence, the negation of all honesty, the death of all art, and, in fact, the debased artists had fallen on their knees, and they eagerly kissed the dirty feet of the eminent jobbers and low satraps whose alms permitted them to live.

He could never get over his amazement at the incredible ignorance, the instinctive aversion for art, the type of ideas, the terror of words, peculiar to Catholics. Why was this? For after all there was no reason why believers should be more ignorant and stupid than any other folks. Indeed, the contrary ought to be the truth.

Beauty is everything.

un periodista eficaz —digamos Umbral— no alcanza la perfección de su arte con sólo ser informativo, concienzudo, verdadero, riguroso: tiene que tener además un estilo inconfundible.

In una notte di orrore, gli uomini hanno inventato l'arte.

Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy: Arte soy entre las artes, En los montes, monte soy. Yo sé los nombres extraños De las yerbas y las flores, Y de mortales engaños, Y de sublimes dolores. Yo

Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy: Arte soy entre las artes, En los montes, monte soy.

Mi verso es como un puñal que por el puño, echa flor

Mientras mas honda la herida, Es mi canto mas hermoso. While more deeper is the wound The more beautiful the art.

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Ser artista es no tomar en serio al hombre tan serio que somos cuando no somos artistas.

El imperativo democrático obliga a considerar artista a todo el que se presenta como tal, sin pararse a considerar si su producción convierte en universal una perspectiva particular, que era hasta ahora el severo canon que venía exigiéndose a toda obra artística.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Because one does not write poetry in order to flatter and to lie. Well, they've called me a poet, but they'll never call me a fool.

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Para el hombre de la generación novísima, el arte es una cosa sin trascendencia.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.

Shadow conceals-light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degrees to do this is all there is to art.