Quotes About Art

the English garden presented the reverse side of the tapestry, with rough, clotted textures, knots like fists and colours all running together.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anatomy.

La meilleure façon de commencer est de dire : Balthus est un peintre dont on ne sait rien. Et maintenant, regardons les peintures. (p. 91)

I would like to make a movie in which the spectator understands that she is in a work of someone else's construction, and yet as she watches, she is devising her own translations for the movie in which she in fact exists.

The Unintended, Professor Estrella Espejo points out, pushes the envelope: within the spiral of war and loops of art is an unknown war wrapped in another, a ghost in its machine.

The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.

Art cannot save anybody from anything," wrote Gilbert Sorrentino

If I believe that art can, in fact, save us, over and over again, then does it follow that I risk the audacity of believing that you might be the very one who needs my words to save your life?

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Tous les genres sont bons, Hors le genre ennuyeux." (All genres are good, Except the boring one.

Uma obra crítica ou filosófica, que não se mantenha de alguma maneira numa relação essencial com a criação, está condenada a girar no vazio, do mesmo modo que uma obra de arte ou de poesia, que não contenha em si uma exigência crítica, está destinada ao esquecimento.

Ello no significa, sin embargo, que la escritura filosófica deba ser poética sino que sobre todo debe contener las huellas de una escritura poética que se desvanece, debe exhibir de algún modo el retiro de la poesía.

Architecture completes nature.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?

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