Quotes About Art

A poem is an interruption of silence, whereas prose is a continuation of noise.

Is not poetry a megaphone held up to the whispering lips of death?

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

music it says all the things that words alone can never say

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

L'art de persuader consiste autant en celui d'agréer qu'en celui de convaincre, tant les hommes se gouvernent plus par caprice que par raison.

I love to run my fingers o'er the keys, the ivories.

The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.

Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

Sometimes people ask songwriters what a song means, not realizing if they had more words to explain it they would've used them in the song.

bob dylan new orleans

The purpose of art is to stop time.

The first thing that has to go is any form of artistic self-expression that's dear to you. Art is unimportant next to life, and you have no choice. I had no hunger for it, anyway. Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work. It was impossible now for me to observe anything without being observed.