Quotes About Art

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

She can paint a lovely picture, but the story has a twist. Her paintbrush is a razor, her canvas is her wrist.

Nothing says you're a cool dude more than a tribal tattoo...

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

I drew hearts all over my paper and for the first time in forever, these beautiful hearts, they werent for you.

Love is everlasting and seeks expression. Love is deep and incomprehensible. True love has eternal, unfailing depth and worth. Love with and through your art, your relationships, and your dreams, rather than seeking meaning in those things alone. To know love and to show love is to believe in eternal value. Seek that which is enduring and everlasting.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Life as a work of art is covered by years of fears, guilt and indecision. But, if we decide to remove those things that do not belong, if we have no doubt as to our capability, we are capable of going forward with the mission that is our destiny. That is the only way to live with honor.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Being wise and being smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called wise.

Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is will depend upon all our strokes, all our Actions.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

The thing is, I don't think my husband expected me to be able to talk. I don't blame him for this exactly, since he had known me only as a statue, pure and beautiful and yielding to his art. Naturally, when he wished me to live, that's what he wanted still, only warm so that he might fuck me.

His words were simple. They had no art to them, which of course was also art.

Do you always make beautiful things for those you are angry with?" "No," he said. "Only you.

Había contemplado la muerte en pinturas y en los tapices, y también en las figuras negras de las hidrias, pero jamás había visto la vibración del estertor, el ahogo, la desesperación. El olor a sangre.

Quand les sculpteurs façonnent leur pierre, ils le font d'après lui.

He made it look beautiful, this sweating, hacking art of ours. I understood why his father did not let him fight in front of the others. How could any ordinary man take pride in his own skill when there was this in the world?

And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again

Ma non è una caratteristica del genio andare sempre dritto al cuore?

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.