Quotes About Art

As I create I become.

The Hands create, what the Heart feels!

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form, " she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.

I was moved by her emotion, but she was unable to say the one thing I longed to hear. She couldn't say, "Whatever you do, Mineko, please don't stop dancing." The system wouldn't allow it. When I stopped being a geiko I would have to stop dancing.

That one painting entirely changed my future.

A geiko's kimono is a work of art and I would never wear a kimono that wasn't absolutely perfect. All the kimono worn by maiko and geiko are one of a kind. Many of them are given names, like paintings, and are treasured as such. This is why I have such a vivid memory of everything I ever wore.

En Gion Kobu no nos referimos a nosotras mismas como geishas (que significa artistas), sino que usamos un término más específico: geiko o mujer del arte. Una clase de geiko, famosa en el mundo entero como símbolo de Kioto, es la joven bailarina conocida como maiko o mujer de la danza.

Una geiko de categoría es maestra en el arte de crear un ambiente de distensión y esparcimiento, sin embargo, yo no disfruto en particular con la compañía de otros. Una geiko de renombre nunca está sola, pero yo siempre he amado la soledad. ¿No es extraño? Parece que hubiese escogido de forma deliberada el camino que entrañaba para mí mayores dificultades, una senda que me obligase a afrontar y superar mis limitaciones personales.

The dance had become my life, and I couldn't imagine giving it up for anything or anyone. The reason I decided to become an Iwasaki was so that I could continue learning to dance.

El shibori consiste en hacer innumerables ataduras con hilo en la seda antes del tinte, para lograr, finalizado el proceso, un sorprendente efecto veteado. Kioto es famoso por esta técnica, que también utilizaba mi madre.

Poetry remakes and prolongs language; every poetic language begins by being a secret language, that is, the creation of a personal universe, of a completely closed world. The purest poetic act seems to re-create language from an inner experience that … reveals the essence of things.

Nici o poetica din lume nu atinge perfectiunea si semnificatia celei mai timide flori.

Arta de a divaga – È™i a r?mâne totuÈ™i în veÈ™nicie – mi se pare un secret pe care majoritatea modernilor l-au uitat

The art of creating tools is essentially superhuman-either divine or demoniac (for the smith also forges murderous weapons).

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.

Ja vjerujem u ?isto?u umjetni?ke spoznaje, kao u još jedinu ?isto?u koja nam je preostala u ovom životinjstvu oko nas!

Families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. Sometimes they are from birth, sometimes they are melded, sometimes they are merely time and circumstance mixing together, like eggs being scrambled in a Michigan kitchen.

Man suffers for his art.

Music tells the truths

Nazi kitsch may bear a blood relationship to the highbrow religion of art proclaimed by many moderns.

That's what you do. You find the best angle. You crop. You edit. That's not cheating. That's love.