Quotes About Art

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn't mean it's good." "Snob," Sam said.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.

You defined yourself by your enemy's reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Poetry like love risks everything on signs.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Tout est kitsch, si l'on veut. La musique dans son ensemble est kitsch; l'art est kitsch; la littérature elle-même est kitsch. Toute émotion est kitsch, pratiquement par définition; mais toute réflexion aussi, et même dans un sens toute action. La seule chose qui ne soit absolument pas kitsch, c'est le néant.

His masterpiece was a dead end—but isn't that true of any masterpiece?

Az irodalom mélységesen fogalmi m?vészet (...) Semmit sem lehet állítani, tagadni, relativizálni, kigúnyolni a fogalmak segítsége nélkül, szavak nélkül. Innen fakad az irodalmi tevékenység meglepÅ' robosztussága: az irodalom megtagadhatja magát, elpusztíthatja magát, lehetetlennek nyilváníthatja magát, miközben mégis önmaga marad.

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define.

Un tableau, ... dit pensivement Houellebecq. En tout cas, j'ai des murs pour l'accrocher. C'est la seule chose que j'aie vraiment, dans ma vie : des murs." (p. 146)

I felt more and more ill at ease: people had often spoken to me about show business, media projects, and micro-sociology; but art, never, and I was filled with the presentiment of something novel, dangerous, and probably fatal, from a domain where there was — a bit like in love — almost nothing to win and almost everything to lose.

Allein die Literatur erlaubt uns, mit dem Geist eines Toten in Verbindung zu treten, auf direkte, umfassendere und tiefere Weise, als das selbst in einem Gespräch mit einem Freund möglich wäre - denn so tief und dauerhaft eine Freundschaft sein mag, niemals liefert man sich in einem Gespräch so restlos aus, wie man sich einem leeren Blatt ausliefert, das sich an einen unbekannten Empfänger richtet.

Un poète mort n'écrit plus. D'où l'importance de rester vivant.

literature has always carried positive connotations in the world of luxury goods.

Toute grande passion débouche sur l'infini. La littérature est, profondément, un art conceptuel; c'est même, à proprement parler, le seul. L'homme n'est décidément pas fait pour le bonheur.

mais un auteur c'est avant tout un être humain, présent dans ses livres, qu'il écrive très bien ou très mal en définitive importe peu, l'essentiel est qu'il écrive et qu'il soit, effectivement, présent dans ses livres