Quotes About Art

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

An artist must be pure of heart," said Gerdes, "for true art is the expression of the artist's innermost being. To create beauty, one must be beautiful"—she pressed her hands to her bosom—"in here, in your heart of hearts.

Mind power is my art …… so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Musicals continue to be the only art form, popular or otherwise, that is publically criticized by illiterates.

A matinee, a Pinter play, Perhaps a piece of Mahler's.

Art is edited truth — edited to give it shape, rhythm, speed and punch. I've quoted the Communist dictum before: "If it isn't art, it isn't propaganda." Art is skill in the service of passion.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

American muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land, As mountainous-deep, as flowered with blue rivers, Thirsty with deserts, buried under snows, As native as the shape of Navajo quivers, And native, too, as the sea-voyaged rose.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heartSo many men have tried to understandBut only made it smaller with their art,Because you are as various as your land.

Particularly over the past decade, there've been many advances in the art of training neural nets. And, yes, it is basically an art.

the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before.

music came before anything else, before language and large-scale war and liquid soap, and because music is the one giant thing America has done right, amid all it has done wrong. Music, that ancient and incorruptible bitch.

In fact, I'm willing to argue at this point that we are all Drooling Fanatics, that every single human being carries within him or her the need for music and that we differ only in matters of degree and expression.

they do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed)

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self – in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay;

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.