Quotes About Art

We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, art for art's sake.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is grief.

My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn't the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.

The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't become an elegy.

You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

Beauty without expression tires.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.