Quotes About Art

To choose to be alone is to bait the trap, to create a space the demons cannot resist entering. And that's the good news; the demons that enter can be named, written about, and tamed through the miracle of the healing word, the miracle of art, the miracle of silence.

On a soutenu que le christianisme avait mis fin à l'art antique. Dans une certaine mesure cette opinion peut se justifier. Le christianisme, et aussi l'Islam, à l'imitation de leur père le Judaïsme, répugnent par essence à ce qui fait la beauté de l'Art antique, la plastique.

La gravure sur pierres fines a atteint son apogée pendant l'Antiquité. La Renaissance et les Temps moderne n'ont pas égalé, en tout cas pas surpassé les produits anciens qui sont parvenus jusqu'à nous.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Que es exactamente lo que mi madre no desea: que su sufrimiento y el de sus hijos le sirva de material a un escritor para que componga su libro o al director de cine para que ruede su película, y los aplaudan después, y ganen premios, mientras nosotros seguimos con nuestra tragedia a cuestas.

El suicidio es un arte como otro cualquiera. De los pocos, sin embargo, cuya consumación no requiere ni un largo aprendizaje ni una dilatada experiencia.

Mi sueño es el de Picasso; tener mucho dinero para vivir tranquilo como los pobres.

Para un intelectual, el arte de hacerse simpático consiste en fingir que comparte la variedad de estupidez más arraigada en el colectivo cuyo favor pretende.

Most of the time fame is nothing more than a product of commerce, and has nothing to do with literary quality.

I've always thought it absurd for words to be added to music because I think music is a language, perhaps not a more precise one, but a much more effective language than language, than words.

At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art.

Could you imagine people eating a painting -- if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

With your golden hair and honey skin, you are a Rubens painting come alive, that's what you are. All exuberance and emotions and depth of color and sensuality. And, as if you really were a painting, I must content myself with just looking at you.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it…. If you manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe schon seit früher Kindheit geneigt gewesen, seit seiner Kindheit war er ein Sammler, die Museen waren in ihm; seine Statuen waren seine Spielzeuge, ein Vorrecht derjenigen, die von Geburt an verloren sind und an ihrem Ende debütieren.

Throughout, the Museum reflects the personal taste of Mrs. Whitney. In each case final choice of a work of art depended on her, since there is no board of trustees. This is a Museum founded, maintained and managed by artists, since Mrs. Whitney, the curator, and his assistants are sculptors or painters.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

Vroeg naar bed gaan - dat vonden de immer onuitgeslapen pioniers van de moderne kunst het moedigst denkbare gevecht tegen depressie, drank, zinloze verstrooiing en de voortstormdende tijd.