Quotes About Art

Beauty is revealed through the art of revision—whether one is revising a perfume, a dress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or life itself. —DB

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.

This is called the Three Muses," Barbara said, pride evident in her voice. "One of my favorites, it was installed in 1913. The goddesses represent History, Science, and Art. The sculpture was created by Julia Bracken Wendt

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence, there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.—Confucius

Shakespeare = We all make his

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

It is not thought a good collection, but I was very well pleased, particularly (pray tell Fanny) with a small portrait of Mrs. Bingley, excessively like her. I went in hopes of seeing one of her sister, but there was no Mrs. Darcy.

I could not excuse a man's having more music than love — more ear than eye — a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.

though he admires Elinor's drawings very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth.

As for your Elizabeth's picture, you must not have it taken for what painter could do justice to those beautiful eyes? It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.

I mention these ritual dances, this ritual drama, this bridge between art and life, because it is things like these that I was all my life blindly seeking. A thing has little charm for me unless it has on it the patina of age. Great things in literature, Greek plays for example, I most enjoy when behind their bright splendours I see moving darker and older shapes.

We know from tradition that in Athens ritual became art, a dromenon became the drama, and we have seen that the shift is symbolized and expressed by the addition of the theatre, or spectator-place, to the orchestra, or dancing-place.

I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle

A simple example can be seen in the transformation of an idea into a painting, that is the transformation of the energy, the psychological energy of an idea into physical materialization. The idea itself, once you have conceived of it, represents an additional energy component that you build up, formulate and manipulate on the psychological level, and then transform; but the idea itself contains energy.

Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist.

It seems clear, though, from the history of novel writing since Dickens's time, that the production of enduring literary art has little or no relationship to market success, except insofar as a publisher can fund the publication of more complex and difficult works with the profits of a steady stream of popular stories. Even the most "loyal" readers grow "disloyal" when the work fails to please them.

Art is a kind of mining, he said. The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Any work of art, said her grandfather,must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Words shouldn't be dirty or clean But definitely sweet, On the tongue, in the mind.

It's their skins I'm peeling, she said. The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.