Quotes About Art

I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.

But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.

?tiin?a este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.

Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.

He was spilling out a year of his life blood with every convulsive painting that he tore from his vitals. It was not the length of his stay on earth that mattered to him ; it was what he did with the days of his life. For him time would have to be measured by the paintings he poured out, not by the fluttering leaves of a calendar.

A work of art meant growth from the particular to the universal. To a work of art, time brought timelessness.

Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools?

Art is amoral; so is life.

sculpture bore the relationship the truth did to falsehood... if a painter blundered, what did he do? He patched and repaired and covered over with another layer of paint. The sculptor on the contrary had to see within th marble the form that it held. He could not glue back broken parts.

ViaÈ›a îns??i îndreapt? spre om o fa?? goal?, nep?s?toare, descurajant?, pe care nu se citeÈ™te nimic, ca È™i pe pânza asta goal?. Dar omul nu se sperie de acest gol, p??eÈ™te plin de încredere È™i de curaj, se zbate, cl?deÈ™te, creeaz?, È™i pân? la urm?, pânza nu va mai r?mâne goal?, ci se acoper? cu formele bogate ale vieÈ›ii.

Art has an enemy called ignorance

Scriitorul È™i pictorul folosesc mijloace diferite, proprii artei fiec?ruia, dar exprim? acelaÈ™i gând.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

The music could no more repeat itself than could snowflakes, and could no more fail of beauty.

Intuition! What's that? Define it!" "Easily. Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

el amable arte de actuar solapadamente.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself

We have to defend democracy, but remember that not everything is politics. Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there's no soul.

Sospecho que todo lo ocurrido no es fortuito, sino que corresponde a un destino dibujado antes de mi nacimiento y Esteban García es parte de ese dibujo. Es un trazo tosco y torcido, pero ninguna pincelada es inútil.

If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again

Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there's no soul

Francisco encontró en esos sencillos elementos un profundo sentido estético y decidió que más tarde tomaría algunas fotografías para su colección. Nunca pudo hacerlo

Escribir es como hacer el amor. No te preocupes por el orgasmo, preocúpate del proceso.