Quotes About Art

The maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum

Just as art is the concealment of art, laissezfaire is the concealment of tremendous generosity.

I am this thing that needs to sing.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

I was always working steady, but I never called it art.

I was always working steady But I never called it art Meeting Jesus reading Marx Sure it failed my little fire But it's bright the dying spark Go tell the young messiah What happens to the heart.

Durante le due settimane in cui restó in città, vide Tamara quasi tutte le sere. Lei aveva lasciato lo psichiatra e aveva sposato l'Arte, che era meno esigente e costava meno. "Non raccontiamoci nessuna novità, Tamara". "Cos'è, pigrizia o amicizia?". "È amore!". Breavman finse uno svenimento teatrale.

In the realm of aesthetics, reason is always subordinate to perception.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

Una grande opera d'arte (così come un grande avvenimento) vive attraverso un'infinita varietà di punti di vista e a diversi e mutevoli livelli di comprensione: nel tempo, nello spazio, da un individuo ad un altro, nel mutare delle condizioni in cui lo stesso individuo vi si accosta. E può vivere anche, per così dire, nell'aria, senza che direttamente la si conosca.

Certo, lo riconosco, la castità è spaventosa: ma soltanto nei primi tempi che la si sceglie ed affronta... Poi avviene qualcosa di simile, lei mi può capire, a quel che succede nell'arte, per chi la fa: i limiti e le preclusioni espressive ne sono la forma, non sono limiti e preclusioni. Allo stesso modo, la castità è la forma più sublime cui l'amor proprio può accedere: un far diventare arte la vita.

Che resta di una mostra, se non il catalogo?

Translation is the other side of a tapestry.