Quotes About Art

I like big butts, Renoir explained to Toulouse-Lautrec.

I'm more visual than verbal, really. The painting and so forth.

Whistler, Manet called. How's your mother?

Perhaps I'll call it Luncheon on the Grass, then," said Manet. "Since I've clearly forgotten to paint the model wet enough.

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful. A sword that could not fulfill its function would be ugly to my eyes no matter how fair its shape, not even if it were adorned with the finest jewels and the most intricate engraving.

Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.

Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

W]hat an artist does is fail," he writes. "The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition . . . there is no such thing as a 'successful artist.

I loved idiot paintings, tops of doors, decors, saltimbanques, canvases, signboards, popular engravings, obsolete literature, church Latin, badly-spelled pornographic works, novels by our grandmothers, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, folk refrains, popular rhythms. —Rimbaud, "A Season in Hell

Listening to music, reading novels, watching films, and even looking at art can act as a gateway into your deepest emotions.

bir yazar?n edebiyat okumas?n?n bir at bak?c?s?n?n at pisli?iyle u?ra?mas?ndan farks?zd?r (...)

there were more critics than painters, more publishers than writers, more teachers than practitioners.

Dansta) Erkek iÅŸin çerçevesidir ama kad?n çerçevenin içindeki resimdir.

The poet John Ciardi pointed out, "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at women and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Translation is the art of failure.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media. Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on.

Dios ha muerto, el arte dejó de existir, la historia ha llegado a su fin, y yo mismo no me siento del todo bien.

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.

Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed, but that the learned must decide when and how.