Quotes About Art

Everything, she noticed, seemed capable of transmogrification. Even the two boulders in the backyard sometimes turned to silver in the early morning sunlight. In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Anything had the potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

With each roll of film, however, she began to understand more and more how a photograph was put together, what it could do and what it could not, just how far you could stretch and twist it. Though she did not know it at the time, all of this was training her to be the photographer she would become.

Some pictures belong to the person who took them. And some belong to the person inside them.

For as long as she could remember, Pearl had understood the hierarchy: her mother's real work was her art, and whatever paid the bills existed only to make that art possible.

The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.

Poems of Akhmatova, selected and translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward, gives

Photography, at its heart, was about documentation, and he soon understood that for Mia photography was simply a tool, which she used as a painter might use a brush or a knife.

Anything had potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

For Mia, Moody learned, did not consider herself a photographer. Photography, at its heart, was about documentation, and he soon understood that for Mia photography was simply a tool, which she used as a painter might use a brush or a knife.

?lham kaynaklar? Eski Yunan'?n iki remiz ismi: Dionizos-Apollon. Birincisi, romantizmin temsilcisi., hamle, macera, aray??, hürriyet. ?kincisi, klasisizmin.. sanat, tasannu, dam?tma ve süzme. Oysa kemal, ikisinin kayna?mas? de?il mi? Her büyük romantik, klasik olmak zorundad?r. Romantizmle kanatlanmayan klasisizm içi bo? bir mahfaza. Ölümsüz abideler çift mimar?n eseri: Dionizos-Apollon.

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L'arte di vivere è l'arte di credere alle menzogne, il tremendo è che, non sapendo quid sit veritas , sappiamo però che cos'è la menzogna.

Una cosa sola (tra le molte) mi pare insopportabile all'artista: non sentirsi più all'inizio.

Tutta l'arte è un problema di equilibrio fra due opposti.

la literatura es la defensa frente a las ofensas de la vida

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.

All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.