Quotes About Art

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion¦. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing..

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Love is a canvas pattern furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

Judge not my passion, by my want of skill, Many love well, though they express it ill.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.