Quotes About Art

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

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There was a van Gogh on one of the walls, worth more than most planets could pay. It was a painting of the artist's room at Arles. Madness is not a new invention.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

The sculptor Pete Garcia is found in his studio Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in his bedroom Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in the yard beyond.

Mis primeros poemas eran lamentables. Como la mayoría de los malos poetas, yo no me daba cuenta de ello, seguro en mi arrogancia de que el simple acto de crear daba cierto valor a los indignos abortos que alumbraba.

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature?

If there is a god [...] he's a poet. And a failed one at that.

She is practicing because she knows there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

The more we have at stake, the harder it is to make the leap into writing. The more we think about who's going to read it, what they're going to think, how many copies will be printed, whether this magazine or that magazine will accept it for publication, the further away we are from accomplishing anything alive on the page.

Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention. Lovemaking is not a third thing but two-in-one. John Keats can be a third thing, or the Boston Symphony Orchestra, or Dutch interiors, or Monopoly.

If I'm not writing, my heart hardens, rather than lifts.

For years we had the persistent sensation in our life and art - John Updike's phrase - that we were just beginning.

You take something that isn't your own and you breathe life into it. You create it—and it becomes your creation. You are an agent to help my brother express the finest kind of love.

She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

Every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Wer beruflich mit Musik zu tun hat, müsste dazu erzogen werden, Sinn dafür zu entwickeln, sich auch vielen anderen Wissensbereichen zuzuwenden, die nicht direkt mit Musik zu tun haben. Die technische Beherrschung eines Instruments, die für einen Berufsmusiker wesentlich ist, hat nur dann einen Sinn, wenn sie mit einem allgemeinen Erkenntnisprozess einhergeht, zu dem eine breite Basis von Wissen und Kultur gehören.

And those who were against the regime felt that music was like a kind of oxygen, because this was the one place where they could really be free. And those musicians who were in favor of the regime were only too proud that such a wonderful institution existed under such a regime.

An epidemic exemplifies system dynamics. The more you can think systemically, the more you can follow the path of coins, art, religion, or disease. Understanding how coins travel along trade routes parallels analyzing the spread of a virus.

The neocortex is the seat of thought; it contains the centers that put together and comprehend what the senses perceive. It adds to a feeling what we think about it—and allows us to have feelings about ideas, art, symbols, imaginings

Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey truth for now--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will ve replaced by a new truth, because that is the way science advances.