Quotes About Art

From the eyes of his angel in the Baptism of Christ to the smile of the Mona Lisa, the blurred and smoke-veiled edges allow a role for our own imagination

sculpture for their desks, and mass-market consumers were not eager to spend twice what

As the New Yorker art critic Adam Gopnik once wrote, "Leonardo remains weird, matchlessly weird, and nothing to be done about it."11

Picasso tenía un dicho: "Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"

movimiento y la emoción, las dos columnas gemelas del arte de Leonardo

Sometimes, in supernatural fashion, a single person is marvelously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace, and talent in such abundance that his every act is divine and everything he does clearly comes from God rather than from human art.

As he aged, he pursued his scientific inquiries not just to serve his art but out of a joyful instinct to fathom the profound beauties of creation. When he groped for a theory of why the sky appears blue, it was not simply to inform his paintings. His curiosity was pure, personal, and delightfully obsessive.

Regardez ! J'ai dessiné un cercle ! s'exclama Warhol après avoir joué avec MacDraw.

En la pintura, las acciones de las figuras expresan, en todos los casos, la intención de su ánimo

Would you cure your own child from being schizophrenic if you knew that, if you didn't, he would become a Vincent van Gogh and transform the world of art? (Don't forget: Van Gogh committed suicide.

El buen arte se aparta de la moda, no la sigue

It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough—that it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.

Of all the people I have met, I like the Japanese most, as they are modest, intelligent, considerate, and have a feel for art

The Japanese people struck him as gentle and unpretentious, with a deep appreciation for beauty and ideas. "Of all the people I have met, I like the Japanese most, as they are modest, intelligent, considerate, and have a feel for art

Those who have never faced disease and suffering have no need of producing beauty

The most important lesson I've learned as a writer is that practice of the art is something I must exercise every day. The reason for this constant training is that any idea worth discovering is bigger than my head. The twists and turns, story and plot, characters and character development of a novel cannot be held in a single thought or even in a train of thought. This novel takes up a lot of space and needs room to breathe and evolve.

If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution

And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face.......

I like it when people say, 'Gee, that's a pretty good-looking painting.' But it's my painting, and when somebody says, 'Why don't you use more red instead of blue?' Good-bye. It's my painting. And I don't care what they sell it for. The painting itself will never be finished. That's one of the great things about it.

He wasn't pleased with himself for appraising the girl in the tank. He thought of her as half-pretty, the sort of girl one would find modeling for art classes in dire community colleges. Putting her cheap panties and her ex-boyfriend's shirt back on to wander around the easels afterward and wondering how grotesque she must really be, to have summoned up the deformities whacked down in merciless charcoal strikes.

Our main quarrel is with the author who makes his personal appearance a substitute for the artistic presentation of his subject, thinking that talking about the subject is equivalent to presenting it."6

Don't die with the music still in you.

Writing is not something that I do. It is what I am.