Quotes About Art

Art is art and life is life, but to live life artistically; that is the art of life

Violating the boundaries between life and art to make their material their own was a dangerous way for these filmmakers to work. It was successful for a while, enriching both the life and the art, but as the two became more extravagant and interchangeable, New Hollywood directors lost the detachment of artists, and their lives and art sank into quicksand, joined in a fatal embrace.

The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors and directors express all they have to say. If the event has a future, this can only lie in the memories of those who were present and who retained a trace in their hearts. This is the only place for our Dream. No form nor interpretation is for ever. A form has to become fixed for a short time, then it has to go. As the world changes, there will and must be new and totally unpredictable Dreams.

Theatre is always a self-destructive art, and it is always written on the wind.

There is no resting place; you have to keeping trying to get it all down on the page. Silence threatens: as for Balzac's fictional Dante, writing is a constant skirmish with nothingness.

everything," Balzac claims, "is a mosaic.

It's perfectly possible to enjoy a good, civilized, person-to-person conversation with a picture on a museum wall. Talk to it, listen carefully, and it will more than likely talk back to you.

Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Thus down the ages, millions suffered and died. Bad art and disastrous theology had prepared the way for Hitler and his 'final solution'.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Classic, but not as good as Wish You Were Here.

Another difference," Rob said. "What?" "There's no color on anything they build, no finish or decoration. All the external material is raw." "They're color blind as well." "And immune to esthetics?" "Okay, then. You tell me." "I don't know why, I'm just pointing it out. Their culture has no art." "Have you seen the crap flooding the unisphere these days?

He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.

My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. ? Peter Falk

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.