Quotes About Art

there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls.

Everything is the proper stuff of fiction. —VIRGINIA WOOLF

The words are on my tongue—the rounded lumps of them, shining like the marbles beneath the tree.

There are not more than five primary colors  (blue, yellow,  red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

There are only five primary colours,13 but when blended, their shades and hues are limitless.

The ultimate skill in taking up a strategic position is to have no form.

8. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

how much room it would take to build a giant vagina

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell.

Kitsch is much more than a question of style; it's a preference for consolation over truth. Disney's version of reality is not just cleaned up, it's pernicious. Unlike the best forms of art and philosophy, it undercuts the possibility of transformation because it portrays a world that's just fine as it is--or as it will be by the time the credits come up.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Art is seduction, not rape.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.

Philosophy is an art form—art of thought or thought as art