Quotes About Art

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

I've forged you into stars Under the vault of my skull

Voglio danzare, disegnare, suonare il pianoforte, scrivere versi, io voglio amare tutti. Questo è lo scopo della mia vita.

Vaslav Nijinsky

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated in the human mind mired in tradition, myth and many kinds of falsehoods. They demand a form of changing social awakening.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

I love design.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.

La musique avant toute chose

For you and everything alive inside of you, I write, and write.

The poet is a little god.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.