Quotes About Art

We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

A canon is a guarded catalogue of that speech, music and art which houses inside us, which is irrevocably familiar to our homecomings. And this will include, if honestly arrived at and declared (even if solely to oneself), all manner of ephemera, trivial, and possibly mendacious matter…No manor woman need justify his personal anthology, his canonic welcomes. Love does not argue its necessities.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

Art is a wound turned into light.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

You may give all the explanations you like, but your painting makes me feel as if you were trying to make us eat cotton waste and wash it down with kerosene.

There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I find that I have painted my life—things happening in my life—without knowing.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for.