Quotes About Art

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.