Quotes About Art

Follow your muses instead of trying to solve the social wounds of your adolescence. We've lost a whole generation of people who are dealing with their environment by retreating, by going into therapy. So instead, you go to open mic at a crummy tavern and perform your art. Rather than being introspective and constantly working on your shortcomings, get angry, get excited, get social.

There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us a story.

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

In a prose passage on a life in art—without explanation or elaboration, as if the idea had just popped into his head and he had to capture it before it fled—Thoreau drops this simple couplet: My life has been the poem I would have writ But I could not both live and utter it.

Vous faites de la musique, Monsieur. Vous n'êtes pas musicien.

Por qué la música es capaz de ir al fondo del dolor? Porque es allí donde ella mora.

nada do que é manufacturado me agradada por comparação com as bruscas paisagens de Deus. (…) À Casa de Ouro ou ao tesouro do imperador Alexandre, prefiro o oceano Atlântico. O Coliseu aos pés do monte Oppio é menos belo que uma trovoada.

L'écrivain est le langage qui se dévore lui-même dans l'homme dévoré par le mentir qui en fait le noyau.

Hétérogénéité naturelle, originaire, tel est le destin de l'art.

Quand je tire mon archet, c'est un petit morceau de mon cœur vivant que je déchire. Ce que je fais, ce n'est que la discipline d'une vie où aucun jour n'est férié. J'accomplis mon destin.

La chasse est le fond de l'art. Le guet le fond de la contemplation. La faim le fond du désir. La carnivore le fond de l'admiration.

Drawing things is a kind of lovemaking, so the subject should be chosen carefully.

You're the Picasso of pain, A fantasy in fleshtone And though you're never the same You're never far from the mark

We also follow Peter Perla's insistence, in his The Art of Wargaming (1990), on using the contracted compound "wargaming" (not "war gaming") to represent the form's characteristic synthesis of topical simulation and ludic play.

You do it for yourself, not for anyone else. When you make something beautiful, you change. You put something of yourself into the thing you make. You're a different person when you're done.

Do you know how to tell if a work is art?" he asked her calmly. "True art changes the artist. The artist puts something into the work and he changes. That's how you tell.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

I have come to understand, through my own writing and through working with other writers, that fear is a friend of the writer. Where there is fear, there is buried treasure. Something important lies hidden—something that matters—like the angel waiting in the stone that Michelangelo began to carve.

Maybe she is right. Maybe the old self has to die for the new self to be born. Or maybe, for me, the old self doesn't have to die. Maybe who I have been is not erasable on the tablet of who I am, or in the book of who I will become. Maybe writing, like painting, can be pentimento—one layer over another, the early layers now and then showing through.

Writing is often a struggle between the personal and the universal, and the way writers deal with that struggle varies.