Quotes About Art

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

Kalau kita, para warga negara, tidak memberikan dukungan kepada seniman-seniman kita, berarti kita telah mengorbankan imajinasi kita di altas realitas yang kejam, dan pada akhirnya kita jadi tidak percaya pada apapun, dan mimpi-mimpi kita tidak lagi berarti.

The precept that location is key to the success of a business applies to art, and even to life itself: we thrive or wither depending on how nourishing our environment is.

I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality?

Magick" has been defined as the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. By this definition any willed act is a magical act. We are all magicians. We either perform our magick efficiently or inefficiently.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

We long for the suspension of self-consciousness, of the pseudo-analytic attitude that has become second nature; but neither art nor religion, historically the great emancipators from the prison of the self, retain the power to discourage disbelief. In a society based so largely on illusions and appearances, the ultimate illusions, art and religion, have no future.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head.

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.

Know why people run marathons? he told Dr. Bramble. Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human—which means it's a superpower all humans possess.

Ken estaba convencido de que había redescubierto un arte milenario, así que llamó a su estilo Running Evolution

Sabe por qué la gente corre maratones?», le dijo al doctor Bramble. Porque correr se encuentra arraigado en nuestra imaginación colectiva, y nuestra imaginación se halla arraigada en correr. El lenguaje, el arte, la ciencia; los transbordadores espaciales, La noche estrellada de Van Gogh, la cirugía intravascular; todo tiene su origen en nuestra capacidad para correr.

Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.

symbols. Since we both have a love of art, she truly got my attention by showing me Egyptian symbols, such as the eye of Horus and the ankh.

Riegl also solved a paradox of academic doctrine, wedded to the ideal: its tendency to summon its own subversion by reality, or by lowly life. Now that the story line is the movement from touch-based art to vision-based art, the future is open-ended, for art can always be further intellectualized without worrying about a surfeit of sublimity or transcendence, just as low subject matter does not threaten to drag art back into the weeds of practical life.

Art is the place where the points in time that reason holds apart are reunited.