Quotes About Art

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

I think it would be a good stunt to get along without any art at all for a generation, and see what we miss.

The art of advertisement ... has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still

if it were part of a systematic approach they were taking to being well-rounded, self-actualised people: We exercise regularly, we go to the theatre, we read the right novels, not just the Man Booker shortlist but the Man Booker longlist, we see the right exhibitions and we take a real interest in international politics, social issues and our friends' cute children.

She reminded Lars of one of Renoir's women: small-faced and round-eyed with curly hair piled on top of her head, creamy-skinned, plump, and bosomy, possibly a little vacuous,

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

No one ever expects poetry to sell.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

No hay literatura femenina. Hay hombres y mujeres que escriben".

I am happy to see that more and more young people are once again taking up theatre.

Theatre is my first love. No matter how tight my schedule may be, for theatre I always find time.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

But he did not believe ordinary citizens created art. True art was anomalous; it was a rare mutation. It didn't happen simply because one willed it so. He thought it an utter and exasperating waste of an ordinary man's time.

I have never understood why a person who is not a genius bothers with art. What's the point? You'll never have the satisfaction of having created something indispensable.

It's a sense of despair about writing itself, a sort of throwing up of hands, as if to say I'll put this down on the page but it's not what I really mean because what I really mean cannot be put into words.

We wander through Art of the Ancient World, past a Babylonian lion, Estruscan urns, an enameled Nubian bracelet, body parts fro Greek statues: a sandaled foot, a muscular male bum with one thigh. It's good to see art, to remember what a natural human impulse it has always been. We move into Art of Europe, the haloes and angels, the sacred birth and bloody murder of one man over and over, a whole continent possessed by one story for centuries.

Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.