Quotes About Art

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.