Quotes About Art

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Art is emotion without desire.

burnt by the sunof your mouth, I'm unable to speak or paint you with words

Art is a way of possessing destiny.