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Quotes About Art

O ile Historia (ludzkoÅ›ci) ma na tyle zÅ'ego smaku, ?eby siÄ™ powtarza?, o tyle historia sztuki nie znosi powtórzeÅ".
~ Milan Kundera
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
~ Milan Kundera
If she couldn't love her fourteen-year-old schoolboy, she could at least love cubism. p. 91
~ Milan Kundera
Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word!
~ Milan Kundera
For Franz music was the art that came closest to Dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication.
~ Milan Kundera
El kitsch provoca dos lágrimas de emoción, una inmediatamente después de la otra. La primera lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso, los niños corren por el césped! La segunda lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso es estar emocionado junto con toda la humanidad al ver a los niños corriendo por el césped!
~ Milan Kundera
SavaÅŸ ve kültür Avrupa'n?n iki kutbudur, cennet ve cehennemi, zaferi ve utanc?d?r, ama onlar? birbirinden ay?ramazs?n. Birine bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunda ötekine de olacakt?r, birlikte yok olacaklard?r. Elli y?ld?r Avrupa'da savaÅŸ olmamas?, elli y?ld?r hiçbir Picasso'nun ç?kmamas? olgusuyla gizemli biçimde ilintilidir.
~ Milan Kundera
Kitsch is a folding screen set up to curtain off death.
~ Milan Kundera
Y se acordó del primer cuadro que pintó, ya como pintora madura; surgió gracias a que sobre él cayó por error pintura roja. Sí, sus cuadros estaban basados en la belleza del error.
~ Milan Kundera
Don't play what's there; play what's not there.
~ Miles Davis
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
~ Miles Davis
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
~ Miles Davis
ZAR NE VIDIŠ DA NI TO LICE NA TEBI NIJE TVOJE? POGLEDAJ NA BILO KOJU FRESKU ILI SLIKU PA ?EŠ GA ZA?AS NA?I. TEBI JE SAMO PRIVREMENO DATO NA ?UVANJE, DA GA MALO NOSIŠ, KAO TU? ŠEŠIR, PA ?E OTI?I DALJE. TO ISTO VREDI I ZA TVOJ GLAS I ZVIŽDUK. OSVRNI SE, UOSTALOM, NA SVOJU SENKU, TU NA ZIDU, KOJA JE RASLA I GOJILA SE S TOBOM. U NJU ?EŠ JEDNOM LE?I POSLEDNJI PUT I ONA ?E TE NADŽIVETI.
~ Milorad Pavi?
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
~ Noah Baumbach
I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.
~ Norah Jones
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.
~ Norman Mailer
I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.
~ Pamela Love
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.
~ Pattiann Rogers
Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure.
~ Patton Oswalt
I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.
~ Paul Weller
I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
~ Penn Jillette
Poet's food is love and fame.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
~ Peter Gabriel
Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.
~ Pharrell Williams