Quotes About Art

Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.

Under white clouds, cielo di Pisa. Out of all this beauty something must come.

You hate translation??? What of it?? Expect to be carried up to Mt. Helicon in an easy chair?

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

These words are all I have so I write them- I need them just to get by.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

The wildness of the flower is all in the tone

The point of art is to show people that life is worth living by showing that it isn't

Philosophy should only be written as poetry.

Novels do not drop ready written from the skies. Your couple of hours' reading is my half year's work.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Il bello sarebbe meno ingannevole e insidioso se cominciasse a venir considerato bello tutto ciò che dà un'emozione, indipendentemente dai canoni stabiliti.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.