Quotes About Art

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

It is the process of design, in which diverse parts of the "given-world" of the scientist and the "made-world" of the engineer are reformed and assembled into something the likes of which Nature had not dreamed, that divorces engineering from science and marries it to art.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

Why is there so much meaningless, waste of time music out there these days? I'm no snob. I know I'm right about this. You can sell a lot of people a lot of crap but you can't sell it to me. Finding a good band to listen to these days is harder than ever. When one comes along, it's such a surprise when it didn't used to be. It's a surprise I could use a lot more of.

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Jakie spo?ecze?stwo, taka literatura.

The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.

Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them—or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…

A writer is precious and necessary for us only to the extent to which he reveals to us the inner labour of his soul.

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and begin caressing his doll as the lover caressed the woman he loved, it would be distasteful to the lover. Just such a distasteful sensation was what Mihailov felt at the sight of Vronsky's painting: he felt it both ludicrous and irritating, both pitiable and offensive.