Quotes About Art

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

Than he who shares good Fortune's grace, For love of muse, for sake of art, With those inclined to join the race.

To human beings it won't look or feel like a war, it'll be more like . . . one of those modernist paintings you lot do, if it melted. Inside all your brains. Forever.

[Upon first seeing a daguerreotype:] From today painting is dead.

el cine se mueve en un nivel más cercano a la música y a la pintura que a la palabra escrita. Por eso, las películas ofrecen la oportunidad de explicar conceptos y abstracciones sin la tradicional dependencia de las palabras. En dos horas y cuarto , hay tan sólo cuarenta de diálogo [en 2001: una odisea del espacio] Stanley Kubrick Entrevista al New York Times el 1 de abril de 1953

To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

U umetnosti, stanje duse u kom se nalazimo cini tri cetvrtine posla; treba ga dakle negovati ako se zeli napraviti nesto veliko i trajno...

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

How do you see this tree? Is it green? ...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible.

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation that will result.

Neuznávám žádnou jinou pravdu, kromÄ› pravdy umÄ›lecké lži.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop

"I see psychotherapy is an art grounded in science. The art consists of connecting with a patient where he or she is, then using solid evidentiary methodologies and interventions to move the patient toward a reparative experience." The Wall Street Journal

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.