Quotes About Art

La musica non tradisce, la musica è la meta del viaggio. La musica è il viaggio stesso.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

Credidit ut Clmabos picturæ castra tenere Sic tenuit vivens, nunc tenet astra poli.

As the initiator of a learned tradition of discourse on Renaissance art, Vasari's vocabulary is in some respects limited. For example, he employs the adjective 'beautiful' over and over again, much to the despair of all his translators.

El arte más perfecto, la música, late, pasa y desaparece.

Într-un cuvânt, am r?mas omul care nu accept? lumea, iar unitatea È™i armonia sufletelor mele opuse const? tocmai în aceast? atitudine înc?p??ânat?. Nu vreau s? accept lumea aÈ™a cum e, de aceea încerc s-o refac cu ajutorul fanteziei sau s-o transform prin distrugere. O reconstruiesc prin art? sau încerc s-o r?storn prin teorie. Sunt dou? eforturi aparent deosebite, dar armonioase È™i convergente.

Lumea ni se pare r?u întocmit?; viaÈ›a - lipsit? de grandoare, gândirea ne face impresia unei intenÈ›ii r?mase la jum?tatea drumului, unui gest abia schiÈ›at, unui desen negru È™i confuz pe care nimeni nu l-a dezvoltat în fresc?.

Actualmente, hablamos de lenguajes en plural, por tanto, de lenguajes cuyo significante no es la palabra: por ejemplo, el lenguaje del cine, de las artes figurativas, de las emociones, etcétera. Pero éstas son acepciones metafóricas. Pues el lenguaje esencial que de verdad caracteriza e instituye al hombre como animal simbólico es «lenguaje-palabra», el lenguaje de nuestra habla.

velha ideia russa segundo a qual a arte não é somente cultura, mas construção, profecia, verdade.

O kitsch é a única forma de linguagem possível se quisermos comunicar com as massas, porque simplifica tudo e não apresenta nenhuma nuance.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Playing may be easy, but playing the right way is not. ("Interpretations," A Cultural History of the Theatre in the Middle Ages, ed. Jody Enders, (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 136.)

The worker in handicrafts will ask himself if there are not ways by which the sense of beauty could be extended from the somewhat narrow fields of art to the broader field of human relations. And he comes to see that to ask the question is in part to answer it.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

What is the great passion of your life?" I asked. "Beauty," he replied without hesitation.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.