Quotes About Art

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Acting, Dickens and his contemporaries believed, was the art of gesture, no more and no less.

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences' he wrote. 'No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things

Type has rhythm, just like music.

Everybody wants to design a bloody typeface.

Beatrice Warde: "La copa de cristal o por qué el arte de la impresión debe ser invisible". Su teoría, sencilla pero contundente, defendía que incluso el mejor tipo de letra existía solo con el objetivo de comunicar una idea. No había sido creado para ser visto y mucho menos para ser admirado. Cuanto más visible la fuente o la maquetación de una página, peor la tipografía. (...) Cuanto más transparente el cristal, más se apreciará su contenido.

it is only n very rare artist that is as good as his art.

I love to dance!" she said cheerfully. "Sometimes I think the whole world should be put to music and choreographed!" "This being the Nightside, someone somewhere is undoubtedly working on that very thing, right now.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G.H. Hardy

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

My old geography professor once told his class how the music, paintings, sculptures, and books of the world are mirror in which people see versions of themselves.

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.

Her dream was to become an artist—to be loved for moments beyond her own life.

El objetivo de escribir no es ser publicado, eso es algo hermoso, pero el objetivo es la verdad, la autenticidad.

Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays—they are all in this one book.

In the usual proto-Art-Nouveau style, the sculptor follows through on an ethnographic hunch that surprising numbers of the tribal womenfolk would be in their late teens and free of clothing.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.