Quotes About Art

A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

Meiner Ansicht nach bedeutet Spiritualität, lebendig-sein. Ein geistiger Mensch, der zur Schönheit der Poesie erwacht ist, der für die Schönheit von Melodie und Harmonie empfänglich ist, der sich an Kunst erfreut und sich von der Schönheit der Natur begeistern lässt, der als lebendiges Wesen lebt, und nicht als ein totes, diesen Menschen kann man spirituell nennen. (S. 280)

Don't be silly. Everyone's an artist. You probably just haven't found your medium yet.

He drew witches, wolves, and ghosts; she sketched landscapes and cottages.

Because Picasso could no longer imitate, he innovated. Plath does the same in "Daddy," her surreal poem of rupture.

Like her Joycean hero Stephen Dedalus, she was filled with "Icarian lust": she would seek out her destiny abroad, collect experience for her art, and stay in motion.10 Anything to evade the life not lived, the poem not written, the love not realized. Plath spread her wings, over and over, at a time when women were not supposed to fly.

Beauty was all I'd ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.

Have lunch, have coffee, and continue to work hard on the things that won't dry up and blow away: Your health, your career, your little art projects or poems or essays, your odd new half-interests, the complicated folds of your sensitivity and your darkness, and your belief in a world that wants you to be happy.

To write, one only needs a pen. Of course, by pen I mean enclosure.

Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity, you must be fearless.

Art creates a certain familiarity with loneliness. And possibly with pain. Physical, mental, it doesn't really matter. It's all a catalyst. I don't like to admit that because it's depressing, but in truth pain is the stone that art sharpens itself on time after time.

Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler

What sort of brainwashing, he had wondered, had created a world in which people worked fifty or sixty hours a week, every week, no matter how beautiful the day outside, no matter what thoughts they were having? Where would the paintings come from? The novels and sculptures? The music?

Every hour of the day an artist falls to earth and we fall beside them. I fell a long time ago with Arky Levin. But I fell before that beside Marina Abramovi?.

writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15 000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.