Quotes About Art

A lot of the arguments about religion going on at the moment spring from a rather inept understanding of religious truth Our notion changed during the early modern period when we became convinced that the only path to any kind of truth was reason. That works beautifully for science but doesn't work so well for the humanities. Religion is really an art form and a struggle to find value and meaning amid the ghastly tragedy of human life.

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

the funny thing is that my mom can't draw at all!

Don't waste time trying to change your anger into something that makes you likable; you will only wind up disliking yourself. Write your rage, paint it, film it, dance it, lyricize it, poeticize it. You don't have to be good, just honest.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

I think something more mysterious might be happening, less articulate than any of the captioned and numeraled drawings in the 'The Spiritist's Telegraph.' Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

Now while it's hanging in the gallery I pine for it. But once it's on my own wall, perhaps it will be different -- once it's here all the time, every time I lift my eyes ... when I come into the living room in the morning and in the evening ... Will it make me happy? Yes, a voice inside him said, it will make you happy.

As Hephaistia she was associated with Hephaistos, and as Areia with the war-god Ares. As Ergane, goddess of handicrafts, she came close to the former of these gods, and as Alalkomene, "the Parrier", she came close to the latter. Of all the handicrafts she most loved and protected the art of smiths and metal-founders, likewise the women's crafts—spinning and weaving and woolwork.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Everything that's created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity has no beginning. Poetry or a Joke: the act of creation lies between what's self-evident and what is permanent

When the sun of culture is low, even dwarves will cast long shadows

Science is spectrum analysis. Art is Photosynthesis.

Maschinelles Leben fördert, künstlerische Umgebung lähmt die innere Poesie.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

When the poet or the performer composes or recites he is deeply moved, and indeed possessed (not only by the god but also) by the message; for example, by the scenes he describes. And the work, rather than merely his emotional state, induces similar emotions in his audience.

The method of science depends upon our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable , even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification–the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

I didn't go to the funeral of poetry. I stayed home and watched it on television.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.