Quotes About Art

Soit toujours poète, même en prose 

Manier savamment une langue, c'est pratiquer une espèce de sorcellerie évocatoire »

Mikä ei ole aavistuksen verran epämuotoista vaikuttaa yhdentekevältä; - tästä seuraa että säännöttömyys, toisin sanoen odottamaton, yllätyksellinen ja hämmästyttävä ovat oleellinen ja tunnuspiirteinen osa kauneutta.

Nuori tyttö, mörkö, hirviö, taiteen murhaaja. Nuori tyttö niin kuin hän todellisuudessa on. Pieni hölmö ja pikku paskiainen; kertakaikkisen typeryyden ja kertakaikkisen turmeltuneisuuden sekoitus. Nuoressa tytössä on kaikki sakilaisen ja koulupojan viheliäiset piirteet.

Sois toujours poète, même en prose

Woe betide the man who goes to antiquity for the study of anything other than ideal art, logic and general method! By immersing, himself too deeply in it, he will no longer have the present in his mind's eye; he throws away the value and the privileges afforded by circumstance; for nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that it impresses upon our sensibility.

Noir assassin de la Vie et de l'Art, Tu ne tueras jamais dans ma mémoire Celle qui fut mon plaisir et ma gloire !

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

purple does something strange to me

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

according to my figures I've only had 2500 pieces of ass but I've watched 12500 horse races, and if I have any advice to anybody, it's this: take up watercolor painting.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.