Quotes About Art

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it. In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Nuestros trabajos en piedra, en pintura, en impreso están a salvo -algunas de ellas por unas pocas décadas, o uno o dos milenios- pero finalmente todo deberá caer en la guerra o desaparecer en la final y universal ceniza.

You highbrows writing on movies are nuts! In order to write about movies you must first make them.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

I'm going to paint too. I'm going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.

Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things—that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art.

I had learned bit by bit the art of meeting people with a straight face—no, that's not true: I have never been able to meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful smiles, the buffoonery of defeat. What I had acquired was the technique of stammering somehow, almost in a daze, the necessary small talk.

I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink.

When an artist is pumped up with the intention of creating a masterpiece, however, the work generally comes out poorly,

Art cannot order people around. Art dies the moment it acquires authority.

They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Forgiveness isn't an easy art, It calls for courage to play its part, To release the anger and grudges long held, And in its place, compassion is compelled.

Poetry is the voice of the heart.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

My work is not about 'form follows function ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.