Quotes About Art

Art has no meaning if it's not an escape. If it's not born of a prisoner's despair. I can't respect any art that comforts and relieves, those novels and music and paintings designed to make your prison more bearable.

Porque los personajes no mueren jamás, viven siempre que su mundo es «leído». Aunque jamás consiga besar a su amada, el pastor pintado en una urna griega sabe al menos que la va a contemplar eternamente. Esta es mi apuesta y mi esperanza.

Poezia s-a sinucis avînd grij? s?-È™i fac? un nod foarte estetic la È™treang.

Opera artistului e cochilia sa, dar pe mine m? intereseaz? animalul care-a secretat-o din sângele È™i din carnea lui.

La lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.

If my fellow Americans could adopt even a fraction of the French attitude about food and life (don't worry, you don't have to sign on to the politics, too), managing weight would cease to be a terror, an obsession, and reveal its true nature as part of the art of living.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

Although a poem arises when there's nothing else to be done, although a poem is a last attempt at order when one can't stand the disorder any longer, although poets are most needed when freedom, vitamin C, communications, laws and hypertension therapy are also most needed, although to be an artist is to fail and art is fidelity to failure, as Samuel Beckett says, a poem is not one of the last but of the first things of man.

Slikati zvukove i mirise je nemogu?e, a slike su nezamislive u svoj savršenoj realizaciji bez zvukova i bez mirisa!

Historija radi Å¡irokim potezima, a fresco. Historija slika dekorativno!

Odonda je prošlo ve? mnogo vremena a on nije naslikao ništa poslije ona dva-tri sretna jesenja dana on nije dugo ve? doživio ništa što bi bilo vrijedno da se uop?e doživi vu?e se po kavanama živi me?u ovim dvonošcima koji nose kišobrane i uvijek kada govore govore o ne?em stvarnom o kruhu ili o mesu mi?u ?eljustima i zubalima od kau?uka a sve je jalovo i nema nikakvog višeg razloga za opstanak.

Svaki ?ovjek se je bar jednom, nedvojbeno, osje?ao kao mramorno poprsje.

Umjetnost je lijepa, ali život je ozbiljan.

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Fashion is instant language.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

No person writes to win awards.

La belleza de la literatura reside en los malentendidos.

I'd heard "Rhapsody in Blue" a thousand times and it always amazed me. It was so humble and then so bombastic. It was beautiful, bright, and terrifying: old and new, European and American. At times it sounded like Debussy, at times it sounded like Stravinsky, and at times it sounded like the Lower East Side in 1910. "Rhapsody in Blue" was a quintessentially New York work of art, but it was also about moving from east to west, from the old world to the new...

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.