Quotes About Art

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

You are young men and not children. The idea is that art allows the child imprisoned inside the adult to come out to play and celebrate the world and its beauty." He said that art was intimately linked with immortality: a challenge to death and time, a celebration of life.

Religion and art [...] are almost the same thing anyway. Just different ways of taking a man out of himself, bringing him to the emotional pitch that we can ecstasy or rapture.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

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Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry...thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Give me, next good, an understanding wife,By nature wise, not learned much by art.

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery,Foot-in-the-grave young man!

The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.