Quotes About Art

El lenguaje debió nacer así, de la pasión, no de la razón.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.

Returning the phone, she said, "You're an artist." The whole train seemed to shimmer. The stars shone brighter out the window. Ray knew Grampa and his art teacher believed in him, but nobody had ever said, "You're an artist." Just like that. Let alone someone his own age. Maybe Mel wasn't easy to get to know, but she sure did have a kind heart.

What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It's like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be" -Salma

Sometimes I can change how I feel about something by drawing it.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that truth. Literature and art refine and beautify, and if they were to depict reality naked, just as everyone suspects it is (although we defend ourselves against that knowledge), no one would be able to stand it.

Reality calls for a name, for words, but it is unbearable, and if it is touched, if it draws very close, the poet's mouth cannot even utter a complaint of Job: all art proves to be nothing compared with action. Yet to embrace reality in such a manner that it is preserved in all its old tangle of good and evil, of despair and hope, is possible only thanks to distance, only by soaring above it--but this in turn seems then a moral treason.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Czes?aw Mi?osz

È difficile comprendere da dove provenga quest'orgoglio dei poeti, se sovente si vergognano che appaia la loro debolezza.

There was no castle. You were simply listening to a record. A needle, swaying lightly on a black frozen pond, Led the voices of dead poets out into the sun.

Poetry is the passionate pursuit of the real.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

The real is the imaginative failed.

Painters sometimes come to Cairn; they set up their easels and mix their colours and paint strange pictures of the place—pictures which, as far as the villagers can see, bear little or no resemblance to the scene.

Life was like a piece of tapestry . . . or perhaps one should say a piece of tapestry was like life . . . for there was the background, which was rather dull, and the coloured bits, which were fun. And it was not until you had got to the end and the whole thing was complete that you could see the pattern properly.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.