Quotes About Art

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

That complete statement which is literature.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.

Después de unos años de buena, leal y sincera investigación he acabado llegando a esta conclusión: la feminidad es una puta hipocresía. El arte de ser servil.

Between what we know and what we cannot hope to know about how we come to be as we are lies an emotional dumping ground into which exceptional writers pour all the art they are capable of making.

V S Naipaul] brings to [literary narrative] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought. Observe hard, think even harder, figure out what you are thinking in the simplest, clearest language, and you will arrive at narrative: that is his credo.

This book is for Randall Jarrell, the man who believed we are devoted to the act of making literature because it leads to the act of reading.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

Postmodernizam obra?a pažnju na modernizam. U osnovi su modernizmi binarne reakcije, a postmodernizam polinarna reakcija.

Sabism is a thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism of color, active color, logical panel.

Sabism is an art and theatric movement of 21st century occupied with the philotipes, mythologic forms, schematism and chromatic scales, dual art, logism of color, cult art, conglomeration. As an art movement it tries to explore word act, group performance, collective structure, fruitfulness and aesthetics of multitude through philotipes as implicit connotation of colors or schemes in their general use (honeysuckle yellow, female, courtly, savage, dionysiaque).

The concept interacts with two types of art: theoretically driven art and artistically driven theory. The concept is the exchange of ideas and processes, means and ideas, ideas and acts.

Theory is intermodal, theory is the concept of art.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece.

In high art and pure science detail is everything.

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss.

Often there are two different reasons given for this natural desire to simplify. First is that we as humans have a very limited imagination and whichever medium we use to understand the world - be it science, religion, philosophy, or art -we will end up exploting the same limited set of ideas available to us.

The uglier as body art, the better as a bodyguard.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination