Quotes About Art

al jazz como un modesto ejercicio de liberación

De pronto me alegra poder pensar que los críticos son mucho más necesarios de lo que yo mismo estoy dispuesto a reconocer [...] porque los creadores [...] son incapaces de extraer las consecuencias dialécticas de su obra, postular los fundamentos y la trascendencia de lo que están escribiendo o improvisando.

feel the same thing I feel standing in front of certain (very few) paintings or drawings by the Surrealists: that for a second I'm on the other side, that they have helped me cross over, that I'm you .

con en la pelvis el signo de Antonin Artaud

No es que haga tanto frío, en realidad, pero el fuego es el amigo de los artistas, ¿no le parece?

Después compre solfeos y un frac, y por favor no cante por la nariz y deje en paz a Schumann.

La novela gana siempre por puntos, mientras que el cuento debe ganar por knock-out.

Partís del principio -dijo la Maga-. Qué complicado. Vos sos como un testigo, sos el que va al museo y mira los cuadros. Quiero decir que los cuadros están ahí y vos en el museo, cerca y lejos al mismo tiempo. Yo soy un cuadro, Rocamadour es un cuadro. Etienne es un cuadro, esta pieza es un cuadro. Vos creés que estás en esta pieza pero no estás. Vos estás mirando la pieza, no estás en la pieza…

Para qué sirve un escritor sino para destruir la literatura?

La ciencia tiene frente al arte una gran desventaja: que la ciencia es provisional, es decir, suceptible de mejora.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

Art is the imagination completing its mission here on earth. —PAULA TIMPSON

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.

Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Instead, he had given me a new term to describe the heavy layers that I had built in the Land of Beauty, one on top of the other: pentimenti. "It's from the Latin," he had said in that growly voice of his. "To repent. And correct.

That was my focal point? My North Star that I had been following so futilely? If I tried to strip her off of the board, it would ruin the collage. Ruin . . . or make real?

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed?

As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths.

It is hard not to write satire.

nie jestem pewnien, czy na Twojej piÄ™ciolinii rozumienia jestem w stanie zapisa? nuty mojej melodii. Chyba nie ma takiego klucza wiolinowego, od którego mógÅ'bym rozpocz??.