Quotes About Art

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.

My dad used to say that giving someone a poem is like gifting them a feeling. Everything will change from black and white into color.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

Creativity facilitates the work of mourning.

One might say that instead of regarding psychoanalysis primarily as a therapeutic method, Lacan envisions it as a profoundly philosophical undertaking that—a bit like traditional renderings of the art of living—possesses the potential to revise the subject's perception of the basic orientation of its existence.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.

Among the pictures in our "Children's House" in Rome we have hung a copy of Raphael's "Madonna della Seggiola", and this picture we have chosen as the emblem of the "Children's Houses". For

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

I love to collect modern art.

As always, aesthetics and ethics dance a tango in dramas.

Carly went back and forth between several of the paintings, trying to decide which one was least likely to frighten small children. "You know, your work is very Ã¢â'¬Â¦ unique, Hazel. I can honestly say I've never seen anything quite like it.

Art is the essence of beauty. The artist, a mute that practiced crying until he managed to shout free of dissonance.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Why an inordinate interest in animals and athletes? They are subjects for art and exemplars of it, are they not? minding their own business. Pangolins, hornbills, pitchers, catchers, do not pry or prey—or prolong the conversation; do not make us self-conscious; look their best when caring least.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Därer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish" Here we have thirst and patience, from the first, and art, as in a wave held up for us to see in its essential perpendicularity; Not brittle but intense--the spectrum, that spectacular and humble animal the fish, whose scales turn aside the sun's sword with their polish.

Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this

No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles ». No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine as the chintz china one with fawn- brown eyes and toothed gold collar on to show whose bird it was. Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth candelabrum-tree of cockscomb- tinted buttons, dahlias, sea-urchins, and everlastings, it perches on the branching foam of polished sculpture flowers - at ease and tall. The king is dead.

Todas las artes han producido maravillas. El arte de gobernar sólo ha producido monstruos