Quotes About Art

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

My blood ran with this ink...

Da Vinci said, "A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." And so, perhaps, if this day were a painting, I would begin with black. Mermaid Tears By the time Avery woke up, I was sick of painting.

The great poet, in writing himself, writes his time.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestleWith words and meanings. The poetry does not matter.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion…

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

In my research, I was surprised to discover that some experts believe many people possess an instinct or a natural aptitude for making money, others for healing, creating art, organizing, or negotiating. I'm convinced our instincts emerge out of and alongside our gifting, so it makes sense that our instincts would reflect our talents and abilities.

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

Drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, Ã¢â'¬Â¦ at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

Bo aluzja jest swego rodzaju formÄ… sztuki. Aluzja to prawda ubrana w szatÄ™ metafory.

to nic nie znaczy, do diab?a, w ko?cówce naszego wspania?ego XX wieku, wieku tyranii i rozpasanej demokracji, g?upkowatej ?wi?to?ci i genialnego ?ajdactwa, skapcania?ej sztuki i rozwydrzonej grafomanii.

Poet? jest ten który pisze wiersze I ten który wierszy nie pisze

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Would you paint if you knew you were painting only for Me?