Quotes About Art

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

Philosophers think, creators make!

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

There is no depth to education without art.

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

The best education in film is to make one

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.