Quotes About Art

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

El arte de amar ¿Es arte de morir? Amar Es morir y revivir y remorir: Es la vivacidad.

is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy.

Los ojos del entendimiento comulgan con la hermosura y el hombre procrea no imágenes ni simulacros de belleza si no realidades hermosas.

Garabato Con un trozo de carbón Con mi gis roto y mi lápiz rojo dibujar tu nombre el nombre de tu boca el signo de tus piernas en la pared de nadie En la puerta prohibida grabar el nombre de tu cuerpo hasta que la hoja de mi navaja sangre y la piedra grite y el muro respire como un pecho...

El lente es una poderosa prolongación del ojo y, sin embargo, lo que nos muestra la fotografía, una vez revelada la película, es algo que no vio el ojo o que no pudo retener la memoria. Imaginar, componer y crear son verbos colindantes. Por la composición, la fotografía es un arte.

La fotografía es un arte poético porque, al mostrarnos "esto", alude o presenta a "aquello". Comunicación continua entre lo explícito y lo implícito, lo ya visto y lo no visto. El dominio propio de la fotografía, como arte, no es distinto al de la poesía: lo impalpable y lo imaginario.

Writing, I am convinced, is the least appreciated of all the creative arts. Only a miniscule portion of the population engages in sculpting or painting or composing but everyone writes - whether it be letters, invitations, shopping lists...It is not far-fetched, therefore, for anyone with a smattering of self-esteem to believe that if he or she had the time, and the desire, an acceptable book or article could be produced.

but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to become too conscious of it.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. —Margaret Atwood

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. —Susan Sontag

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Painting taught literature to describe.

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

los colores no pueden comprenderse, se sienten.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.

el arte que es simplemente malo ni siquiera es capaz de provocarnos repugnancia.