Quotes About Art

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

Allusions to Golding's book can be found in movies (Hook with Robin Williams), television (a stand-up comedy bit in Seinfeld, "The Library," season 3, episode 5), the novels of Stephen King, and contemporary music. Three of the most powerful and relevant songs that reference the novel include U2's "Shadows and Tall Trees," Iron Maiden's "Lord of the Flies," and The Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid.

Hayat?n belli bir düzeni yoktur, Summers. Edebiyat?n kusuru da ona bir düzen vermeye kalkmas?d?r.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance

La vie imite l'art, l'art imite la vie; parfois je suis incapable de les distinguer.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

You're a peasant and a fool and I want my sword. You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance.

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

DOC    Yes, you want to study hard, Marie, learn to be a fine artist some day. Paint lots of beautiful pictures. I remember a picture my mother had over the mantelpiece at home, a picture of a cathedral in a sunset, one of those big cathedrals in Europe somewhere. Made you feel religious just to look at it.

An artist is, of course, entitled to make money, and Brando didn't claim otherwise. What he struggled with was the conflation of art and commerce, a phenomenon he first observed in the 1960s and watched mushroom beyond all expectation into the twenty-first century. "I don't know if there are any artists left now," he said. "They are so degraded and so confused by the mercantile mind.

Their intention, clearly, was to beat the censors at their own game. If pictures had to be neutered, they'd rather do the castration themselves.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.

He came to three conclusions which explained to him the success of the Social Democrats: They knew how to create a mass movement, without which any political party was useless; they had learned the art of propaganda among the masses; and, finally, they knew the value of using what he calls "spiritual and physical terror.

But Hitler was not entirely wrong in saying that to understand Nazism one must first know Wagner.

Art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal.

In Paris you had to be ready to fight art and the Hellish—not to mention Nazis—so they labored under weapons for all eventualities.

Objects foraged out of Nazis' quarantine, fenced for colossal sums in the black markets of the world outside. Manifs stolen while the partisans fight for liberation, while Thibaut and his comrades face down devils and fascists and errant art, and die.

Can living artwork die? Can it live before it dies?

A maker of IDOLS is never an idolater.