Quotes About Art

When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom—is to die.

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

There are a hundred faults in this Thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties.

She paints a pretty picture, but the story has a twist Her paintbrush is a razor, her canvas is her wrist. She paints a pretty picture in a colour that's blood red. While using her sharp paintbrush, she ends up finally dead. The pretty picture is fading quite slowly on her arm. Blood no longer runs through her, she can no longer do harm. Yes, she painted a pretty picture but the story has a twist, you see, her mind was her razor, and her heart was her wrist.

The fine art is about asking questions and how we understand our world and our place in it.

The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True

Music is part of being human.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

The art of what we might call, loosely, cartoons…[has been] as source of pleasure which has remained and sustained me.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Aunque ellos mismos lo ignoren, ningún creador escribe para los otros, ni para sí mismo, ni mucho menos para satisfacer un anhelo de creación, sino porque no puede dejar de escribir.

All the art of the old Japanese painters (who in almost all periods were monks) is explained if it is understood that, for them, the visible world was a perpetual allusion to Wisdom, like that great tree which, with unutterable majesty, says No to evil for us' (ibid.).

Ma non si impara a fare belle fotografie soltanto con una macchina fotografica. La capacità si acquisisce coltivando la propria sensibilità.

Riuscire? In quale momento si può avere la pretesa di riuscire? Non cerchiamo di riuscire, cerchiamo di vivere intensamente. Riuscire non è lo scopo di un fotografo. La fotografia è una passione di cui si è fatto un mestiere.

La difficoltà, in fotografia, è di prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, giudicandolo freddamente, facendo a meno del vissuto e dell'emozione che ci uniscono all'immagine.

La fotografia è una lezione d'impermanenza.

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000)

La poésie est l'arme de la révolte.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.