Quotes About Art

I much applaud thy judgement; thou art well-read in a fellow. And 'tis the deepest art to study man.

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul

To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

Fapt este ca termenul "profet", caruia epocile ulterioare i-au atribuit un nou sens, era cuvantul biblic penru "poet", iar cuvantul a "profeti" insemna arta de a face poezie. Insemna, de asemenea, arta de a interpreta poezie dupa melodia oricarui instrument muzical.

Gerçek din bilimsel bilgimizin kayna??d?r; bu bilgiden de tüm sanatlar türemiÅŸtir.

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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

The most ancient pictures and statues in Italy and other parts of Europe, of what are supposed to be representations of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, are black. The infant god, in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is himself perfectly black. [335:8]

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

When Wilde composed his works he surrounded himself with books. A friend remembered him writing a poem 'with a botanical work in front of him from which he . . . [selected] the names of flowers most pleasing to the ear to plant in his garden of verse'.5 Aubrey Beardsley's caricature of Wilde, 'Oscar Wilde at Work', shows the author at his desk surrounded by mountains of books.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Rather follow the example of the wise, which the same authority states, "use Law against Laws; the higher against the lower; and by the Art of Alchemy transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald's has done to eating?

I didn't write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.

To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.