Quotes About Art

The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another.

mindfulness means reclaiming attention Nonthinking is an art, and like any art, it requires patience and practice. Reclaiming your attention and bringing your mind and body back together for even just ten breaths can be very difficult at first. But with continued practice, you can reclaim your ability to be present and learn just to be.

The orange tree took time to create this masterpiece.

Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blooms

El arte, ese gran niño nacido muerto.

He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.

Las palabras echan a perder lo que se piensa, el papel ridiculiza lo que se piensa.

It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.

Hayat tasavvurunun yüce sanat? gibi yaÅŸaman?n ve var olman?n daha yüce sanat?n?n da alaya al?nd???, kabare gibi bir dünyada ya??yoruz biz. Felsefe kabare gibi. Din kabare gibi. SavaÅŸ, devasa bir ceset y???n?, sayg?deÄŸer beyefendi, bütünüyle yalan bir k?ta, bugün tüm bunlar ÅŸaka.

Wehe, Sie lesen eindringlicher, Sie ruinieren sich alles, was Sie lesen. Es ist ganz gleich, was Sie lesen, es wird am Ende lächerlich und ist am Ende nichts wert. Hüten Sie sich vor dem Eindringen in Kunstwerke, sagte er, Sie verderben sich alles und jedes, selbst das Geliebteste.

To be an artist in Austria means for most people being compliant to the state, whatever its political complexion, and letting oneself be supported by it for the term of one's natural life.

he kept saying to himself, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, never the Francis Bacon, absolutely not, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, no I won't, not the Francis Bacon.

Mais, lui, ne voulant pas renier son caractère, avait, avant de se suicider, brûlé l'œuvre de sa vie, la rendant au néant en quelques instants, après avoir consacré des dizaines d'années à la mener à bien, et il n'avait pas voulu la laisser à une postérité qui ne la méritait en aucun cas (Génie).

Eu sunt un gânditor posesiv.Mi-ar fi pl?cut s? cred c? Goya a pictat numai pentru mine,Gogol ÅŸi Goethe au scris numai pentru mine,Bach a compus numai pnetru mine.Cum aceasta este un paralogism,iar pe deasupra ÅŸi o teribil? infamie,sunt în fond mereu nefericit. Chiar dac? citesc o carte,am totuÅŸi sentimentul ÅŸi înÅ£elegerea c? aceasta c?tre mine a fost scris?,numai pentru mine.

Tot ce-i la mod? mi-a repugnat întodeauna.Probabil c? suf?r de ceea ce am numit egoism artistic,în privinÅ£a artei vreau totul numai pt mine,vreau s?-l am singur pe Schopenhauer al meu,pe Pascal al meu,pe Novalis al meu ÅŸi pe mult iubitul meu Gogol,vreau s? posed numai eu singur aceste produse de art?,aceste agresiuni artistice geniale,vreau s?-i am eu singur pe Michelangelo,Renoir,Goya.

shaking people up." Finally, art was for both of them not an end in itself but a way of achieving an ascetic renunciation of the world. "Art should be given the chance to phase itself out," Gould

arts, I said, just like that in painting, in literature, I said, even philosophers are ignorant of philosophy. Most artists are ignorant of their art. They have a dilettante's notion of art, remain stuck all their lives in dilettantism, even the most famous artists in the world. We

But the point is this: stories grow out of other stories, poems out of other poems. And they don't have to stick to genre. Poems can learn from plays, songs from novels.

You can't create stories in a vacuum.

Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Don't love too blindly: blindly you will love if you love at all, but a little care is still possible to a well-disciplined heart. May that heart be yours as it was not mine. Cultivate the art of renunciation.

I don't want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don't want to see the original realities – as optical effects that is. I want to see the deeper reality underlying the scenic, the expression of what are sometimes called abstract imaginings. The 'simply natural' is interesting no longer.

It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition.