Quotes About Art

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

great art and design can even induce the same brain activity as being in love – something Denmark cottoned on to 90-odd years ago.

Research shows that great art and design can even induce the same brain activity as being in love – something Denmark cottoned on to 90-odd years ago.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

what delights the poet is 'unintelligibility' ...(where) language doesn't sound like anything anyone could possibly say in 'real life' or in 'real philosophy.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

All literature is scarry.

I ... overflow; my desires have invented new desire, my body knows unheard-of-songs. Time and again ... I have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst - burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a stinking fortune.

Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.

Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the confessional. You felt that she came to it quite naturally, without transition, so completely did it posses her whenever they were alone.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Photographier : c'est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l'oeil et le coeur.

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.

Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.