Quotes About Art

Our most successful bubbles, our only successful ones are doubtless those that are the least worked. For can one work on a bubble? Surely not, - unless (carefully) with the very breath that gives it birth. It is only necessary to blow it with an even enough breath, with just the right pretentiousness, a movement of the soul at once measured and persistent, yet not too much so - until it detaches itself quasi-spontaneously from the pipe.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)

El sueno de la razon produce monstuos

Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature? For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

Cuando los estetas se ponen metafísicos, suelen quedarse en alegóricos, y eso jode.

Eso fue el románico: una gracia que se evitaba a sí misma.

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age:

What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema . I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.

Art must take reality by surprise.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

There is an art i n silence, and there is an eloquence i n it too.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

Boxing is a sport. It's not a fight, it's a skill. It's an art. You don't just go in there and start swinging punches. You have to be smart, you have to know what you're doing.

Vincenzo stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris on 21 August 1911,

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.