Quotes About Art

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.

The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves. We say that the present age possesses no art: who is responsible for this? It is indeed a shame that despite all our rhapsodies about the ancients we pay so little attention to our own possibilities.

Surely with mankind the appreciation of flowers must have been coeval with the poetry of love. Where better than in a flower, sweet in its unconsciousness, fragrant because of its silence, can we image the unfolding of a virgin soul? The primeval man in offering the first garland to his maiden thereby transcended the brute. He became human in thus rising above the crude necessities of nature. He entered the realm of art when he perceived the subtle use of the useless.

Seul celui qui a achevé en esprit l'inachevé peut découvrir la véritable beauté. La vigueur de la vie et de l'art réside dans leurs possibilités de croissance.

En percevant l'usage subtil de l'inutile, il est entré dans le royaume de l'art.

Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique. The

Al ofrecer a su amada la primera guirnalda, el hombre primitivo se eleva sobre la bestia; saltando sobre las necesidades burdas de la naturaleza, se hace humano; percibiendo la sutil utilidad de lo inútil, entra en el reino del arte.

Said he (Sung Dynasty critic): "In my young days I praised the masters whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen to have me like.

Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai, --the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.

Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique.

Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.

One of the first requisites of a tea-master is the knowledge of how to sweep, clean, and wash, for there is an art in cleaning and dusting.

My music isn't just music — it's medicine.

tango is art, not sex. Yes, it is art made with your body and someone else's. But not sex.

Tango is not just a dance. It's our human condition. To everyone who loves tango, it's what art is to the artist. A way to connect past and future. But you already know this my dear...

Music is really something that makes people whole.

The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.

Actors should never give interviews.

I've loved Basquiat since I was 13. From his artwork to his interviews to the way he thought about things, I've always been excited by him.

I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.