Quotes About Art

Historian Garry Wills later captured the 1950s liberal Catholic's affinity for "steel and glass fish-shaped churches, and driftwood-swirl Madonnas, and wrought-iron abstract tracery for the stations of the cross (artily photographed in Jubilee)."31

When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing." —

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand,But they are not the Life for which they stand.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time—so too has love.

and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality.

aristo poetika'da der ki,'' dedi henry, ''ceset gibi gerçekte görmesi rahats?z edici ÅŸeyler sanat eserlerinde bakmaya doyulmayacak manzaralara dönüÅŸebilir.

a scrap of seventeenth-century sunlight compressed into dots and pixels

crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")

Across those unbridgeable distances—between bird and painter, painting and viewer—I hear only too well what's being said to me, a psst from an alleyway as Hobie put it, across four hundred years of time, and it's really very personal and specific.

Y eso es lo que hacen todos los grandes maestros. Rembrandt. Velázquez. Lo último de Tiziano. Construyen la ilusión, el truco…, pero te acercas un paso más y se desintegra en pinceladas. Abstracto, como de otro mundo. Una clase de belleza totalmente diferente y mucho más profunda. Es y no es.

Because—the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

Tenemos el arte para no morir de la verdad.   NIETZSCHE

other means) claiming to Hobie that I'd already sold the

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.

V. We have art in order not to die from the truth. —NIETZSCHE

is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.