Quotes About Art

Passionately yes, passionately no" is the worst of all tastes. And now after one has overcome that, after one has followed this natural inclination, one must learn to put some art into one's feelings and rather make an experiment with the artificial as distinguished from and opposed to the natural. That is what the true artists of life do. They do not follow the natural impulses, but experiment with the artificial.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.

Music is the shorthand of emotion

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The idea of "art for art's sake" is a recent Western cultural phenomenon that in some ways both distracts and diminishes the reality of human creative expressions. If we define art broadly, then it permeates virtually every aspect of our lives. All of us search for and attempt to create that which is aesthetically pleasing; thus, we are all "artists.

A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture; it cannot be seen whole. It is only a kind of smoke seized and printed on a page.

What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

She arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate a magazine story. Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

Write what you love. That's really the most important thing—and believe it or not, the most important thing to making a living.

Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one.

Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects?

Sonnet 55 that "Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme" [1–2]).

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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

because writing is not only music. It is also architecture, demanding the technique, mastered only after months and years of bitterest labor, which that art possesses---if the architect is to construct a cathedral of merit instead of a mere group of disordered, flimsy outhouses.

architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs

Paintings were more than mere wall decorations. Art was a reflection of the artist's soul and the world around them. To paint was to create impressions that brought joy or shed light on humankind's shared journey.

Every work of art carries with it a piece of the artist's soul. Paintings are windows to our human experience.