Quotes About Art

I realized that words were sometimes nothing more than notes you wrote to your deepest self as you fought to articulate the splendor and the magic and the ineluctable sense of loss that you felt in the swift, disturbing hours.

And then he left the palace to roam the streets of Ombria, where he painted shadows as he searched for light within them, painted thick, barred doors, as he searched in their hewn, scarred grains for what it was they hid, painted high windowless walls as if, rebuilding them stone by stone on paper, he could dismantle them and finally see the secret life behind the real.

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Carol looked at her. How do you become a poet? By feeling things - too much, I suppose, Therese answered conscientiously.

I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.

The taste of Scotch, though Guy didn't much care for it, was pleasant because it reminded him of Anne. She drank Scotch, when she drank. It was like her, golden, full of light, made with careful art.

I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it.

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

write down all those slender ideas.

Contrary to popular opinion, there's no mystery to writing well. It's a skill that just about anyone can learn, more craft than art.

Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.

You are something new in this world. Be glad of it. Make the most of what nature gave you. In the last analysis, all art is autobiographical. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must cultivate your own little garden. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Art is lost in pop "art" as sport is lost in professional "sport"—which is an oxymoron of the strongest kind. Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.

As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally has something to do with art. Art objects are now commonly referred to as "product" by those who handle them and only make news when they are sold for absurdly large sums or are stolen.

We do all we do in the knowledge that we are working alongside him. Moreover, we do this kind of work hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind and spirit through art and imagination, poetry and song, praise, prayer, and worship. These all help our minds to lay hold of this God, this most lovable being in all of reality.

If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

Memento mori," the monarch whispered. "Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin. —ANTONI GAUDÍ