Quotes About Art

lo que los occidentales llaman "arte" es eminentemente funcional; no representa, encarna.

talent, in both cases, is greatest when it coincides with a taste for truth—which, in short, is comforting.

No hay menos belleza en una exacta ecuación q en una frase precisa. Pero cada ciencia tiene su propio lenguaje estético

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a work to be made, and that work may well utilize much raw material we would prefer to do without.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Pam?enje je neobi?an umjetnik, mijenja boje života, briše ono što je nezanimljivo i ?uva samo ono najljepše i najuzbudljivije.

Sometimes our impulses and desires make us feel powerless. But part of the art of living is knowing how to fight that feeling; because when we're powerless, we get frightened, and then we lose our grip on our intelligence, our common sense, and we become weak.

is often described as the finest illustrated manuscript of the entire Anglo-Saxon era.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite. Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?

Mastering the art of good casework is a little like staring into the shuttering eyes of a rabid canine and saying "nice doggie" until you find a shotgun.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

The only reward you can ask from writing is the chance to keep doing it.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.