Quotes About Art

In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of restorative, placative therapy would go begging a patient. The professional specialization involved in its making would be presumption. The generalities of its applicability would be an affront. The audience would be the artist and their life would be art.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Regardless of how you come up with the good land and good sky images, you'll need Photoshop to combine them. I'll explain how to merge the two images in a way that our visual system finds believable in chapter 6

They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.

Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.

Rhyming in itself is magic.

In a certain sense,I never left Actionism as I understood it to this very day. Today,I work in sittings that are very similar to the course of the actions. Only the stage has changed on which the presentation takes place.

For me,the Bild-Dichtung[image-poem] is the ideal form,because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing,the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,pass. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.

Self-painting is a further development of the art of painting. The surface of an image has lost its function as the sole means of conveying expression. It was taken back to its roots,to the wall,to the object,to the living being,to the human body. By using my body as a means of conveying expression,the result created is a happening captured by a camera as it progresses,and an experience which viewers can share.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

Encourage the beautiful, for the useful encourages itself.

De ce oare fluviul geniului izbucne?te atât de rar ?i atât de rar se revars? în valuri puternice ?i v? cutremur? sufletul uimit?

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

There is nothing worse than imagination without taste.

I call the Classical what is healthy and the Romantic what is sick. - Goethe in 1829

Andre verschlafen ihren Rausch, Meiner steht auf dem Papiere.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Kas spindi – t? akimirka paglemžia, / O tikras menas pasilieka amžiams.

We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches.

One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.