Quotes About Art

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.

This was his cure for low spirits. When you pour your first cup of coffee of the day, if you're feeling crummy, put a dab of ice cream into it. It's festive. Then you gotta trudge off like everybody else, like I said, but you got the ice cream with you. Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

Nabokov once said that the price of being a writer was sleepless nights. But, Nabokov added slyly, if the writer doesn't have sleepless nights, how can he hope to cause sleepless nights in anyone else?

Al llevarme a casa, Harry me dijo —¿cómo podía no saberlo?—que Jackson Pollock se había rebanado la punta de su dedo meñique a los siete años. ¡Siete! Jesucristo. Ni siquiera mi dolor era original

think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

All these buildings of Paris are treasures," said Lucien. "But

Lucien had complete creative freedom. It wasn't just a canard that an architect needed a good client to produce great art.

Just think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

Good triumphed this afternoon, didn't it?" "That, my friend, was a miracle." "And a clever bit of design to hide you up there," said Manet as he gazed up at the painting. "Even

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)

A word love has made a thousand books. (Un mot amour A fait mille livres.)

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Oh! they're too beautiful to live, much too beautiful!