Quotes About Art

Al fin y al cabo, los escritores son criaturas raras, y más si intentan ganarse la vida escribiendo.

But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

They sit for hours in the "cafes" warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about "culture" "art" "revolution" and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.

i am my own muse, i am the subject i know best. the subject i want to know better.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best.

Yo sufrí dos accidentes graves en mi vida: uno es del tranvía, el otro es Diego. Diego fue el peor de todos

El arte más poderoso de la vida, es hacer del dolor un talismán que cura, una mariposa renace florecida en fiesta de colores.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Only sick music makes money these days.