Quotes About Art

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

In art economy is always beauty.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

I am a parasite off beauty.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread