Quotes About Art

Scrivere è sempre nascondere qualcosa in modo che venga poi scoperto.

in his view, literature's worth lies in its power of mystification, in mystification it has its truth; therefore a fake, as the mystification of a mystification, is tantamount to a truth squared. He

If I knew how to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subject and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognize my moods in the motionless suffering of things. Miss

Sono convinto che scrivere prosa non dovrebbe essere diverso dallo scrivere poesia; in entrambi i casi è ricerca d'una espressione necessaria, unica, densa, concisa, memorabile.

It's not for reading. It's for making. I make things with books. I make objects. Yes, artworks: statues, pictures, whatever you want to call them. I even had a show. I fix the books with mastic, and they stay as they were. Shut, or open, or else I give them forms, I carve them, I make holes in them. A book is a good material to work with; you can make all sorts of things with it.

I sit down at the desk, but no story I invent corresponds to what I would like to convey.

You pick your way past young men and girls sitting on the steps, you wander bewildered among those austere walls which students' hands have arabesqued with outsize capital writing and detailed graffiti, just as the cavemen felt the need to decorate the cold walls of their caves to become masters of the tormenting mineral alienness, to make them familiar, empty them into their own inner space, annex them to the physical reality of living.

Waarom zou iemand die handel drijft in boeken niet lijken op degene die zich met wijn bezighoudt? Ook voor wijn was er iets subliems nodig geweest dat de handel vooraf was gegaan en had geschapen: de wijnstok en de zon.

Cuánto reposo puede haber en la escritura!

Lascaux and Altamira, that's what I want my work to be like. . . . Something people can look back at, whenever, and get a grasp of our time. Another hundred years from now, or a hundred thousand — the amount of time between shouldn't make any difference. If my pictures are done right, people whenever ought to be able to say, 'Oh, that's what was on their minds then.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making and ownership of a plan. Often, a leader's plan of action must wait for collegial support—ever patient—until the team is ready.

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.

Tijd heeft geen betekenis op een schilderij. Als het goed is tenminste.' 'En op foto's?' vroeg Vogels. 'De meeste foto's hebben een rouwrand. Heden overleed. Een goed schilderij is net als een stem op een band. Altijd nu, in het heden. Maar wat lul ik, ik fotografeer nauwelijks nog.

In de taal zit een vrijheid verborgen waar de censor niet bij kan. Al onze schrijvers kennen dat geheim.

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I love recording music.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.