Quotes About Art

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

There's No Business Like Show Business.

Both the counterculture and its younger twin, postmodernism, then, are a rebellion against culture and art seen as autonomous, secular human activities. It is now felt, quite correctly, that these activities have been emptied of all spiritual substance even while continuing to claim a quasi-sacred mission.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Photographing a cake can be art.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.