Quotes About Art

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.