Quotes About Art

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

You can tell a lot about a person from his taste in art.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

writing - like any art - is so damned personal that there really isn't a right way to do it. You do what works for you; what matters is getting the words on the paper. Sure, if you hear advice, and it works, then excellent. But, if it doesn't, you have to realize that perhaps nothing is wrong with you. You don't jive with the advice.

[The art of the novel] happens because the storyteller's own experience of men and things, whether for good or ill—not only what he has passed through himself, but even events which he has only witnessed or been told of—has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Sanat de?i?imi biriktirir, zamana yayar. ?yi bir kitap yaln?zca okuma hazz?n?z? beslemez, ayn? zamanda sizde uyand?rd??? duyguyu ba?kalar?na aktarma arzusu verir size. Ya?am?n döngüsü miras? devretmek üzerine kuruludur.

iyi sanatin, iyi siirin bir yardimi da buydu insana. sizi sahip olmadiginiz zamanlara tasirdi; yalniz gecmise degil gelecege de.

bazen ona bir ?eyler yazars?n, yazar silersin... yazar silersin... o hiçbirini okumam?? olur; ama sen hepsini söylemi? olursun

?çindeki ?air hiçbir zaman ölmemi? ama [...] onu, kendinden yap?lma bir hapishanede kilit alt?na alm??t?.

It is too simple to say that if you avoid kitsch you avoid empire but it is a good start. It is more accurate to say that while kitsch does not necessarily imply empire it is one of its accompaniments.

The fear of poetry is the fear.

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

1. Art is a fusion of various dimensions, as if the cosmic exoticism of thinking. 2. Designated as a horse carousel, each has its own seating shape. 3. Loneliness is a very beautiful, romantic depression of reality. 4. The intuition of the subconscious is the mother of all arts - this is the navigator of the imagination leading to innovation. 5. All the romantics in the soul and mind are too mature. 6. Thought is the stage of the death of egoism and the transition to eternity of romance.

An art critic and a psychologist are very similar to each other, they both look for insanity in abstraction, a grain of logic.

Art forms a single, common mentality among all of humanity.

Contemporary thinking in contemporary art, an associative collage of banality, turns into an empty formality, expressed in an ugly imagination, where people try to surpass their own selves in a vicious imagination.

Philosophy and art are the taste of life, this is the cooking of symbolic subjectivism in search of pain from spiritual synesthesia of insight into logical concreteness. Mental destruction for the sake of creating more perfect thinking. Where mental gourmets gather cognitive hyperrealism of clarity, aesthetic awareness.

Philosophy and art are the taste of life, this is the cooking of symbolic subjectivism in search of pain from the spiritual insight of logical concreteness. Mental destruction for the sake of creating more perfect thinking. Where the mental gourmets of aesthetic awareness gather.