Quotes About Art

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.

He looked, as always, as if he had been carved from some durable form of wood by someone who was taking a correspondence course in sculpture and had just reached his third lesson.

Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld.

Sehen Sie, gerade in der Kunst brauchen wir wieder eine Jugend die zu allen Problemen akitv Stellung nimmt.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right.

I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity.

Yo no quiero alcanzar la inmortalidad por mi obra. Quiero conseguirla por no morir. No quiero vivir en la memoria de mis compatriotas. Preferiría vivir en mi apartamento.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance

There I was at fifteen, on the hook, confronted by Matisse and Chagall, by Nolde, Kirchner, and Schmidt-Rotluff, by Guernica and the frantic wall-sized Jackson Pollock, by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

soprano saxophone for their delectation (years later

In those days, Chicago had a joint called the Black Angus that had ribs the taste of which gave life meaning you couldn't get from religion, psychoanalysis, or great art.

but to pun on no less a maven than Blaise Pascal, "The art has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.

There were record albums: classical, jazz, popular, the Caedmon Poets.

by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

Men of Athens, I have never yet studied medicine, nor sought to find a teacher among our physicians; for I have constantly avoided learning anything from the physicians, and even the appearance of having studied their art. Nevertheless I ask you to appoint me to the office of a physician, and I will endeavour to learn by experimenting on you.

Equally misplaced was the notion "maternal instinct." With animals, childrearing is a matter not of instinct but of art. It can't be very much different for humans or they wouldn't keep adopting children of different species.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.