Quotes About Art

The Hermitage was a key location

Her mother had amassed twelve sets of tapestries, one on the theme of the Twelve Labors of Hercules

Mary's tapestries were the glory of her collection. She had some twenty complete sets

One set depicted the History of Aeneas, another the Judgment of Paris

Virginia Woolf pointed out in her classic essay 'The Art of Biography' (1938)

Beneath it is a winged heart with a huge sapphire as its centerpiece

three white fleurs-de-lis on an azure background, set with three rubies and an emerald.

Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat.

The music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann were amongst his favourites.

Now normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn't) and (b) it can be recaptured (it can't) that leads at best to bad art, movie versions of old TV shows, and sad dads watching Fox News. At worst it leads to revisionist, extremist politics, fundamentalist terrorism

He was over there making Yes album covers, and here I was, with my gaudy Trump Towers of rock junk.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

Life is serious but art is fun!

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they've gotten good at it, and they're expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.

That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make the make-believe matter to him more than real life mattered to him; that's when he learned how to paint a picture that was not real and never would be real, but in order to be believed at all- even on a sunny Indian summer day- it had to be better made and seem more real than real; it had to sound at least possible.

If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write

You are my work of art, Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if you've got a work of art in you, Larch concluded in his letter to Homer, but I know what your job is,and you know what it is, too.

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!

They were William Blake's words, set to song