Quotes About Art

no hay dos miradas a una mujer desnuda iguales, no hay dos desnudeces exactas, como no existe las misma ave a cazar, aunque haya sido cazada antes, escapada y vuelta a cazar en el mismo sitio, el momento las hace diferentes.

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in your entirety for who you are, that's the greatest act of love, because it's granting you existence. And the rarest act of love is, like cinema, to see.

Symbols are lovingly inlaid to add to a second or third reading, and even to change radically if you combine them. Symbols have that capacity; they are not ciphers that remain immutable.

Your taste in film is a quest. You have a palate and you must refine it to match your essence. Never settle and never follow blindly.

En la literatura la salud tiene un concepto distinto al tradicional. Para que una obra posea cierta salud espiritual el escritor tendria que estar podrido por dentro.

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

The key to the art of forgetting belongs to our brothers who follow the Path of Death; but you have been made pregnant by the Spirit of Life.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

It is hard to please everyone. It is impossible to tell you all the insults my painting of this year has won me, but I don't care, for when I am no longer controversial I will no longer be important.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Poetry is as exact a science as geometry

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.