Quotes About Art

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule.

I believe that God is (and must be) a transcendent presence in any worthy work of art.

At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for one to appreciate a work of art one must bring to it nothing from life, no knowledge of life's affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions and desires, he was seized by the most stupefying boredom and he had to leave the stage.

The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

She had a dream about a tattoo. This was a pleasant dream. She was walking away and she had the most beautiful tattoo. It covered her shoulders, her back, the back of her legs. It was unspeakably fine.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

It seems the myth survives in our culture still, that a young girl's worth, measured against that of a great man, may be of lesser consequence… I would say rather that a man who treats those offering up their love and trust as expendable is lesser himself for having done so. There is art, and there are artists. Let's not confuse the two.

Eleanor saw her days with her children as a kind of artwork, and as with the practice of making art, much that you attempted didn't work out. Still, the act of doing it felt as demanding and precious as the creation of any book.

Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

La literatura es mentir bien la verdad

que uno no podía ir por la vida sin oír un disco entero de los Beatles por lo menos una vez.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

El único modo posible para el novelista de rescatar la novela consiste en abstenerse de escribirlas

La literatura es una cuestión de gustos, es decir, de limitaciones".

La literatura es una cuestión de gustos, es decir, de limitaciones.

a pesar de la época que nos ha tocado vivir, en la que sólo parecen contar las ventas, la importancia de una obra literaria no se mide por el dinero que sea capaz de generar, sino por los ecos que despierta en nuestro interior,

Çizgili Ka??t verirlerse,yan çevirip yaz.

Naked poetry, always mine, that I have loved my whole life!

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.