Quotes About Art

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Art, true art, is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Tell me, Was Venus more beautiful Than you are, When she topped The crinkled waves, Drifting shoreward On her plaited shell? Was Botticelli?s vision Fairer than mine; And were the painted rosebuds He tossed his lady Of better worth Than the words I blow about you To cover your too great loveliness As with a gauze Of misted silver?

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

The petals numbered but degrade to prose Summer's triumphant poem of the rose.

Poets so their verses write, Heap them full of life and light, And then fling them to the rude Mumbling of the multitude.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak, If you've once found the way you've achieved the grand stroke.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

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My dominant right hand wrote the Inner Parent voices. My Inner Child spoke through my left hand.

Some composers are just interested in music as form. I am much more interested in the formational aspect, in music as a process.

Perhaps that's just what music is: the search for a boundary that is continually being shifted.

I don't think music is a commodity. It can be something that you buy in a supermarket and you throw it away! There's a lot of music you can use in this way, but I'm not interested in that music, even if sometimes it's funny to hear and pleasant to hear. I'm far away from that.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

All art is but imitation of nature.

A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...

I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people are living spread out and hence are at the mercy of stronger animals, who begin killing them off.... They seek to save themselves from the beasts by banding together and forming cities. But they do injustice to one another, at such close quarters, because they lack the political art. So, dispersed once more, they begin perishing again.

The world is a king, and, like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse—it will not submit to the mold of flattery.