Quotes About Art

He could not deliver the piece because he could not sit as long as I can, and the public divided us because they were talking about how I am stronger. It was terrible for our relationship because his punishment was being unfaithful.

I'd always thought of art as something that was expressed through certain tools: painting, sculpture, photography, writing, film, music, architecture. And yes, performance. But this performance went beyond performance. This was life.

In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.

Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor.

The front hall doubled as an art gallery. The exhibition was a series of modern interpretations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Virgin as seamstress. The Virgin wearing boxing gloves. The Virgin working the drive-thru window at McDonald's.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

El arte jamás deja de ser una mentira; cuando es verdad, ya no es arte y aburre, porque la realidad es solo un irremediable absurdo hastío.

A mis traductores, que han tenido la paciencia y el arte de reconstruir el habla y los silencios de mis montevideanos en más de veinte lenguas. (La borra del café)

La estricta realidad me aburre, y el arte me parece hábil, pero nunca eficaz, nunca legítimo. Tan sólo un ingenuo recurso que ciertos tipos desengañados, sinvergüenzas o melancólicos usan para mentirse o, lo que es peor aún, para mentirme. Y no quiero mentirme. Quiero saber todo acerca de mi mismo.

Por eso las grandes obras de arte se han construido siempre alrededor del pecado. - Lo cual, en el fondo, significa construirlas alrededor de Dios. - Naturalmente, porque sin Dios el pecado no existe. Y se han construido alrededor del pecado, porque el pecado está prohibido y tiene castigo, y eso es lo estético: el conflicto entre la prohibición y la culpa. Mejor dicho, el arte es la chispa que resulta de frotar la prohibición con el castigo.

La música es un premio, un recurso, una victoria.

The Golden Rectangle is the only rectangle with the property that cutting a square from it produces a similar rectangle.

The Golden Ratio has the unique properties that we produce its square by simply adding the number 1 and its reciprocal by subtracting the number 1.

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that person's eyes, hear with her ears, think with his thoughts, feel with her feelings. It is the only form of art which can accomplish that feat so deeply, so completely. And thus it is the perfect bridge for helping us coming to know the other - the other inside as well as outside ourselves. (x)

When Matisse was asked whether he believed in God, his response was, 'yes, when I'm working'.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

his desperate sale of The Rite of Spring to Walt Disney, to be used in an animated film called Fantasia.

The opening of Le Théâtre de la Mode took place on 28 March 1945. The exhibition subsequently travelled to several countries, ending up in San Francisco, where the dolls, in poor condition, were abandoned. They and the original costumes have been restored, and are now exhibited at the Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington State.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

But if we create our own Shakespeare, it is at least as true that the Shakespeare we create is a Shakespeare that has, to a certain extent, created us.

The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and ninety acres of pines. It was painted white, and peeling, and some former hippie tenant had painted a mandala on the wall just inside the door with fine-point Magic Marker. I painted over it, but it bled through, again and again. I finally left it there, a pale and pastel version of itself, hanging ghostlike in the hall.