Quotes About Art

It's small wonder that humans dream in myth and in art about other worlds, because we all have the experience of inhabiting one world and, as we are taught language, of walking through a door into another. Even physicists are obsessed with the idea of a multiverse. But we already live in one.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.

Creating never happens in those big gestures that the final product suggests in the end.

Art is long and life is short.

A work of art doesn't need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people's lives.

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White's strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other's domain.

Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?

There's five million people a year standing in the spot where we are now simply because this is the most famous painting in the world and therefore you just have to go and see it. Doesn't matter if you're more naturally drawn to landscapes, battle scenes, religious paintings, whatever: you have to go see the Mona Lisa, so it remains the most famous and popular painting in the world by virtue of being the most famous and popular painting in the world.

the sacred art of leaving I only had to be cut once to know how to bleed I know why we tend to love most those who know how to leave Take my hand and let me tell you All but my love will soon be gone And the exit wound will be quick and clean So the sacred art of leaving passes on. Billy Franks

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

As a modern Austrian writer—Sigismund von Radecki—has well said, "It is not art, but rather the archetype towards which art strives to ascend."2

Hay mucha gente para quien la cultura es la cosa más seria, el medio que ilumina el alma y constituye la salvación; algo con lo que no se debe jugar. Pero la cultura y el arte son las primeras víctimas de esa ilusión, pues pone sobre ellos una carga que no puede llevar.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

You have cut yourself a shape on the air, which may be My scar.

I've always found D Minor to be the sad key.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

La vie sert à faire des opéras-comiques.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.

Kunst ist dazu da, die Wirklichkeit zu verhindern...

Probably the best way to kill aesthetes is with valuable objets d'art so that in death they can still get mad over an act of vandalism.