Quotes About Art

Bicycles are the world's greatest invention, objects of beauty, works of art, the tools of the trade. Most cyclists' initial attraction to the sport has at least something to do with bikes themselves, and this is something that never leaves them.

Intuition is the art of listening, with an inner ear, to the rhythms and melodies of your own "body music." T

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful that God has implanted in the human soul. — JOHANN WOLFGANG

If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness… I expect it will come from the artists. – Karl Paulnack, 2004

Moderne Malerei ist jener Wandbehang, dem das häppchenverdrückende und plaudernde Publikum bei Vernissagen seinen Rücken zukehrt.

Die größte Sorge des zeitgenössischen Intellektuellen ist die, man könne ihn für altmodisch und gestrig halten. Das dürfte auch der Grund sein, warum die moderne Kunst inzwischen quasi unkritisierbar ist.

Es fragt sich, warum die moderne bildende Kunst immer noch in den Feuilletons der Zeitungen behandelt wird und nicht gleich im Wirtschaftsteil.

The truth was she didn't believe in a God who demanded her adoration. She believed in mystery. She believed in patterns and signs. She believed that quantum physics and the theory of relativity could not coexist in the same universe without help. She believed that there was no evolutionary reason for the way beautiful things could take the breath away or for the power of Art with a capital A.

And like all the better professions, editing is something of an art, too, if it's done well, and something of a mystery as well. Nobody teaches it, of course; you're born to it, the way a good surgeon is born with the right hands; it's something you either can or can't do, though apprenticeship doesn't hurt.

The more automated our experience becomes, the less involved we are in the art of living.

Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

Her work was indeed elliptical, she left out everything that was essential, including logic and meaning. Her words neither described nor observed things. They were just words scattered across the page. This was braininess of the highest order, the verbal equivalent of the white canvas passed off as a painting; so abstract that to have expected some sense from it would have insulted the artist.

She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?

Art with a big A makes professionals uneasy. All art is one, and there is no difference in the mystery of the craft, only in the hand and eye of the craftsman.

Performing makes me feel alive

If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.

When the lessons of symbolic or philosophical mathematics seen in nature, which were designed into religious architecture or art, are applied functionally (not just intellectually) to facilitate the growth and transformation of consciousness, then mathematics may rightly be called "sacred.

Islamic tiling pattern of a mosque and structure of the boric acid molecule show how identical shapes interlock in defined, recurring patterns in both art and nature.

You are the only judge of whether a piece of art is a piece of art! It's the average man who is the judge. It's not the effete academic who will determine whether a piece of art is a piece of art anymore than an academic can tell you whether a baseball player is really a great baseball player. It's the fan in the stadium that will tell you whether he's a great baseball player.

And where jazz music was concerned, there was a saying, Segodnia on igraet dzhaz, a zavtra rodinu prodast: Today you play jazz, tomorrow you betray the motherland." Igor,

We see death constantly on film.

Cities, Barber notes, "collect garbage and collect art rather than collecting votes or collecting allies. They put up buildings and run buses rather than putting up flags and running political parties. They secure the flow of water rather than the flow of arms. They foster education and culture in place of national defense and patriotism. They promote collaboration, not exceptionalism."24

No doubt the elders of prehistoric tribes thought the younger generation's cave paintings were not up to the standard they had set.