Quotes About Art

Qué busca? —dijo Cacho impaciente ya. —Yo no busco, encuentro —dijo Etchenike citando a Picasso sin saberlo.

The work can really bring out the worst side of you when you feel like someone else is ruining it. I can completely lose my mind.

Embroidery entwined

We just stole a painting and smuggled ourselves off a train," Amy said, trying to sound confident. "And we can't shop ?

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

This English word derives from the Greek mageia and the Latin magia meaning "art of the magus or magician." These words in turn derive from the Magi, a Persian caste of priests, spiritual practitioners, and masters of astrology and divination. (See Magi, Magician.)

True healing is not physical — it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.

When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. […] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what conceals it. So, too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work is to chisel away at everything that is not essence, not Self.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

Daily Parisian

If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.

our lives are like a big chunk of marble, and the sculpting process is long and tedious. Each little chip doesn't amount to much, but, chip by chip, it will eventually turn into a beautiful work of art. The saddest thing would be for the sculptor to tire of the

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scraps and fragments of identifications. The people with whom we identify are, positively or negatively, always important to us. Our feelings toward them are, in some way, always intense.

Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

When experiencing a work of art, a curious exchange takes place; the work projects its aura, and we project our own emotions and precepts on the work. The melancholy in Michelangelo's architecture is fundamentally the viewer's sense of his/her own melancholy enticed by the authority of the work. Enigmatically, we encounter ourselves in the work.

Bir sanat eseri, bilinçsiz olarak söyle?ilen bir ba?ka ki?i i?levi görür.

the poet speaks not only 'on the threshold of being', as Gaston Bachelard notes,43 but also on the threshold of language. Equally, the task of art and architecture in general is to reconstruct the experience of an undifferentiated interior world, in which we are not mere spectators, but to which we inseparably belong.

Genel olarak sanat ve mimarl???n görevi de salt birer izleyici olmakla kalmay?p, ayr?lmazcas?na ait oldu?umuz farkl?la?mam?? bir iç dünya deneyimini yeniden kurmakt?r. Sanatsal yap?tlarda varolu?sal anlama yetisi tam da dünyayla kar??la?mam?zdan ve dünyada -olmakl???m?zdan do?ar- kavramsalla?t?r?lamaz ve anl?kla?t?r?lamaz.

Sanatç?lar?n ve mimarlar?n sözel ifadeleri genel olarak itibari de?erleriyle ele al?nmamal?d?r, zira ço?u zaman yüzeydeki bilinçli birer rasyonalizasyon ya da savunmadan ibarettirler ve pekala yap?ta bizzat dirimsel gücünü veren derin bilinçd??? niyetlerle keskin bir kar??tl?k bir kar??tl?k içinde olabilmektedirler.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?