Quotes About Art

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

The whole world is beautiful, the art is in the seeing.

Paint the essential character of things.

everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

1)I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. 2)I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

and 1866, Pissarro acknowledged his influences from Melbye and Corot, whom he listed

Escuece darse cuenta de que las gentes siguen pensando que la literatura, como el violín, no hace daño a nadie.

With pencil, with chalk, with a brush I shall seek its form -- with my hands I shall model what tyranny deforms.

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

Jax Cassidy's ART OF SENSUALITY is searing, erotic and sexy!

Pygmalion made her; then she kicked him in the nuts, ran away, and developed a personality.

You want Interpol statistics? Three quarters of stolen art end up transited through a minimum of three countries, exchanged for goods including arms and gold. Recently, someone traded art for a restaurant chain in Slovakia." A means to an end. A kind of currency.

I must emphasize, no matter how obvious it sounds, that good curating depends upon a bottomless passion and curiosity for looking and questioning; and the desire to communicate that excitement. - Donna De Salvo

Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.

Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived." See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

The great Poetry that creates out of the soul of humankind is inaccurately explained if we reduce it to the personal

The face tells us subtleties in feelings that only a poet can put into words.

This was said most artfully by Michelangelo when asked how he created his famous statue of David. He said "it is easy—you just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.