Quotes About Art

He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.

After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean.

Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.

It seems to me that I am shooting a flower.

In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.

Style is the form of the ideal; rhythm is its movement.

Vi sono cose che non si deve neppure tentare di dipingere: il sole è fra queste.

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

To paint a battle requires those mighty artists with chaos in their brush

Todo lo que es grande inspira un horror sagrado. Es fácil admirar las medianías y las colinas; pero lo que es grandísimo, genio o monte, asamblea u obra maestra, visto de cerca espanta.

But architecture will no more be the social, collective, dominant art. The great poem, the great work of humankind will never again be built but printed.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.

The truth was that her photographs were an extension of who she was, what she thought, how she felt. It took perfect concentration to capture the exquisite pain of personal tragedy on film. You had to be there one hundred percent, in the moment - but it had to be their moment.

He wanted to tell her that when he painted, he felt her, remembered her, that it had started in rehab as occupational therapy and now it was his passion.

Limoges platter that had been their aunt's, several small impressionist

She made enough money to keep herself well stocked with film and books.

Once you discover that you can make magic with a brush, painting becomes like breathing. You can't live without

It is the feeling. You have to feel the things you paint in your soul, or they won't come through to your paintbrush.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.

Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.