Quotes About Art

Artistic talent is indeed a gift from God, which the artist is obliged to match with the gift of his life.

But for that to be remembered, Bruno Schulz has to be remembered,

Of a bad playwright: "Saying nothing is the mother tongue of his art.

Polgar's praise for his brains: "High intelligence, from which the blessing of refreshing words falls in a shower, offers here a rich substitute for art.

Tom Stoppard has said that the trouble with bad art is that the artist knows exactly what he's doing.)

In the Italian galleries even the guides regularly fingered the paint surface.

Liberals and humanists are always saying that art is the soul of truth.

He knew where to drop the needle – an especially important qualification in the matter of Wagner, with whom it is an invariable rule that the most immediately accessible bits are never at the edge of the disc.

Riled by pedantic reviewers in search of a solecism, Proust said that there was no correctness this side of originality.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America, but it pictures the people and the customs and the drama of upstate New York in the days preceding and following the Civil War with a simplicity that, to my mind, is true art.

I never met a model I didn't like," says Nick Laws in The Shallow Man (The Dolce Vita Press, 2010/thedolcevitapress.com)

Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous

You're the Nile,You're the Tower of Pisa,You're the smileOn the Mona Lisa….But if, Baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more directly, much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation

One can't write of love while making love.

Do not think, as you read this, that I am painting my own portrait. Be patient, it is only my model.

car écrire ne conduit qu'à écrire.

When does one stop writing? . . . I thought in the past that the work of writing was like other tasks; the tool is laid down and one cries out in delight: 'Finished!' and you clap your hands, from where there rain down grains of sand that first one believed to be precious . . . It is then that you read in the outlines traced by the grains of sand the words: 'To be continued . . .

No one has ever talked to me as he did of the color blue or of golden hair curling like shavings around a reddened ear ...