Quotes About Art

quizás la verdadera naturaleza del arte fuese revelar mundos soñados, mundos imposibles, y que eso era algo a lo que yo nunca me había aproximado, algo de lo que jamás me había sentido capaz; comprendí también que la ironía, lo cómico, el humor debían morir, porque el mundo futuro era el mundo de la felicidad, y allí ya no habría sitio para ellos.

En cierto modo, todo es kitsch. En conjunto, la música es kitsch, y el arte, y hasta la literatura. Casi por definición, cualquier emoción es kitsch; pero también cualquier reflexión e incluso, en cierto sentido, cualquier acción. Lo único que no es kitsch en absoluto es la nada.

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Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

L'intelligence, cette vertu sublime que définit l'art de lier ce qui, a priori, et pour la plupart, passe pour délié.

Le propre de la création est de rendre l'impossible non seulement réel, mais nécessaire.

Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Don't regard my characters as symbols of a determined society. See them as something that sparks a reaction within you so that they become a personal experience. The critic is a spectator and an artist insofar as he transforms the work into a personal thing of his own.

Michelangelo Antonioni

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it