Quotes About Art

To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.

In Tracer Shells, 2002, forty-six cats with bright-white fluron-tipped tails, leap over upturned chairs and tables (depicting social chaos) in response to rapid bursts of recorded machine-gun fire. In the darkened space the effect is startling, the message disturbing, and the method ethically challenging.

Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it.

Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.

Hacedores de imágenes, devolved la palabra a los hombres!

We come from a country that has made a fetish if not a virtue out of proving it can live without art: high, low, old, new, fat, lean, and particularly the rarely visible nocturnal art of poetry. We must do something with our time on this small aleatory sphere for motives other than money. Power is not an acceptable surrogate.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Poetry helps us to suffer more efficiently

Writing is a risk and a trust. The best of it lies yonder.

But since printing came in no one wants illustrated works, they are happy with these cheap books with their ugly, square letters all squashed together.

The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception—best supplied by the contemplation of art. Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity.

Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]: "Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If one has a talent, one is also its victim; one lives under the vampirism of one's talent." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae

Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future that has removed procreation from woman's hands, there will also be no affect and no art. Men will be machines, without pain but also without pleasure. Imagination has a price, which we are paying every day. There is no escape from the biologic chains that bind us.

There is nothing more important to me than the power of words to describe, re-create, entrance, and provoke.

Literature and art are never created for scholars but for a universal audience. If academics cannot see that audience, the cannot see art.

El artista no hace su arte para salvar a la humanidad, sino para salvarse a sí mismo. Todo comentario benévolo de un artista a este respecto no será sino echar una cortina de humo, ocultar el rastro sangriento de su asalto contra la realidad y los otros.

Like art, sex is fraught with symbols. Family romance (Freud) means that adult sex is always representation, ritualistic acting out of vanished realities.

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

This is my barbed wire dress. It protects the property but doesn't hide the view.

the proposition that all mankind's creations should be appraised not just for their beauty or ingenuity, but for what they revealed about the mystery of the human mind.

Sometimes, I think I dreamed it, or I am saying it like a thing that I would do, when I would never, and calling it art.

You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.

All colours are arbitrary.