Quotes About Art

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.

All nice girls sketch a little.

You see, the catch about portrait-painting—I've looked into the thing a bit—is that you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.

you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie.

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

Some poems survive it to become poems in another language," he argued, "but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in which case the translator can manage no more than a reproduction, an effigy, of the original.

The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood. –

La poésie est toujours un acte de paix. Le poète naît de la paix comme le pain naît de la farine. J'avoue que j'ai vécu

la locura, cierta locura, anda muchas veces del brazo con la poesía. Así como a las personas más razonables les costaría mucho ser poetas, quizás a los poetas les cuesta mucho ser razonables.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ? Pablo Picasso

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.