Quotes About Art

Form follows beauty.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Não é o ângulo reto que me atrai. Nem a linha reta, dura, inflexível, criada pelo homem. O que me atrai é a curva livre e sensual.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.