Quotes About Art

Kam smiled as if to say, Look, fools! You think you're so smart and politically correct and all of that, but the Chinese mastered the art of jargon-twisting-to-get-what-you-want back before your sweet Jesus was a holy zygote.

Do you know, I've always believed there's no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that's all.

Of course, like the consciousness behind it, behind any art, a poem can be deep or shallow, visionary or glib, prescient or stuck in an already lagging trendiness. What's pushing the grammar and syntax, the sounds, the images—is it the constriction of literalism, fundamentalism, professionalism—a stunted language? Or is it the great muscle of metaphor, drawing strength from resemblance in difference? The great muscle of the unconstricted throat?

Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it.

There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.' 'Dangerous? What do you mean?' 'Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous.

If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.

To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.

An artist! An excuse for every kind of loose living, for drunkenness, for brawling, for infidelity.

When people ask "Do you put real people in your books?" the answer is that, for me, it is quite impossible to write about anyone I know, or have ever spoken to, or indeed have even heard about! For some reason, it kills them for me stone dead.

Bir sanatç?n?n doyum bulmas?, yap?t?n?n ba?kalar? taraf?ndan be?enilmesi, alk??lanmas?yla olanakl?d?r ancak. Bunu yeni anl?yorum. Ben de, zekâm ve kurnazl???mdan ötürü hayranl?k toplamak isteyen bir zavall?y?m.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Seni yang benar-benar seni, tentu saja berbeda, dan anak-anak muda itu memakai alasan seni untuk membenarkan sikap mereka yang malas-malasan

words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.

But no artist, I now realise, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gainsaid.

Hate isn't creative." - Stillingfleet

One wonders where these things come *from* -- I mean the ones that are a must. Sometimes I think that is the moment one feels nearest to God, because you have been allowed to feel a little of the joy of pure creation. You have been able to make something that is not yourself. You know a kinship with the Almighty, as you might on a seventh day, when you see that what you have made is good.

Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.

It looks like a hand," he remarked. "But, if you say so, I'm quite prepared to admit that it's a cubist picture of Sunset at the North Pole.

A crime can be a work of art. A detective can be an artist.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.