Quotes About Art

Writing is a delicious agony.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

A language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it.—

Gyáva az a korszak, amely a maga egyidej? képi m?vészetét nem teremti meg, és szerencsétlenek azok a m?vészek, akik ilyen, a nemzeti emlékezetben semmiféle nyomot sem hagyó korszakban élnek.

a remekm?vek jellegzetessége, hogy vannak bennük hibák, hibátlan m?vet csak a középszer?ek tudnak írni.

Some people believe that it was while studying the niceties of British and American spelling that the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch painted his masterpiece, 'The Scream'.

The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are foreign to us. "The thing" does not happen here, it happens somewhere else, in a strange and foreign country. The writer has a foreign origin; we do not know the particular nature of these foreigners, but we feel they feel there is an appeal, that someone is calling them back.

It is easy to love and sing one's love. That is something I am extremely good at doing. Indeed, that is my art. But to be loved, that is true greatness. Being loved, letting oneself be loved, entering the magic and dreadful circle of generosity, receiving gifts, finding the right thank-you's, that is love's real work.

Women's imaginary is inexhaustible, like music, painting, writing: their stream of phantasms is incredible.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It's abundantly obvious that one doesn't know the world around us in detail. What artists have accomplished is realizing that there's only a small amount of stuff that's important, and then seeing what it was.

With Ruysdael and Turner, if you look at the way they construct complicated water, it is clearly done in an iterative way. There's some level of stuff, and then stuff painted on top of that, and then corrections to that. Turbulent fluids for those painters is always something with a scale idea in it.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms." (p. 12)

There is not a single brand of realism. Your paintings can be true to nature but emphasize different aspects of visual truth compared to another artist. The way you paint is a record of how you see. It will still be accepted as realism. This explains why Vermeer or Gérôme are instantly recognizable. Each is attentive to different facts of nature. Those who describe realism as slavish imitation miss this point.

art stirred the imagination – my God, it allowed the imagination! – in a way that reality rarely does.

The Poems of Robert W. Service.

Pentru imaginea final?, faptul c? pictorul a aÈ™ezat mai întâi tonurile roÈ™ii sau pe cele gri sau faptul c? dedesubtul picturii se pot observa linii ale unui desen anterior nu are nicio importan?? — ce se vede acum este chiar imaginea în ansamblul ei, dintr-odat?. La fel È™i în cazul figurii umane; complexitatea È™i tr?s?turile formeaz? o singur? expresie, o imagine singular? ce se livreaz? în întregul ei.

Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice.

But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing would be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless—all would be lost like the lost books of Livy, or wrecked as the English wrecked the Summer Palace in Pekin.

Sad! But So disrespectful to the people who made this great country what it is" "You may remove all the works of art you want and even those statues but the memory and the history will still survive even though you throw a baby tantrum...You are still a no count individual until you grow up...If the shoe fits, wear it proudly..

You may remove all the works of art you want and even those statues of which tax dollars paid for by your parents and grand parents. but the memory and the history will still survive even though you throw a baby tantrum...Your parents and grand parents are more important then your little mouse tantrum. You are still of a no count individual until you grow up...If the shoe fits, wear it proudly..??

Let us dance to express our love. For it is the hidden language of the soul