Quotes About Art

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

What if I start making art again? What if I just did that? That is the thing I love, that is the thing I miss the most. For so long I have believed I could never catch up, but now I realize there's nothing to catch up to, there's only what I choose to make. There's still time, I think. I have so much time left.

I have a hard enough time being me, not pulling myself apart every single day. And if it wasn't just my personality and my life choices, but then also my art too? I would die." I

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

Brugge, 14 mei 1978 Ik wil mijn lichaam onderwerpen aan folteringen. Mijn lichaam pijn laten lijden. Mijn lichaam laten sterven. Mijn lichaam laten oprijzen. Om zo zo in het proces van dood en wedergeboorte mijn lichaam los te weken van de realiteit en het te schenken aan de kunst.

My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois

How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois

It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading their domain. Therefore the work was hidden away." -Louise Bourgeois

Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.

Whether through blind luck or sound business sense, Blum ended up buying the whole set of soup cans for $1,000, paying $100 per month till it was paid off. In 1999 he sold them to the Museum of Modern Art for $7 million in cash and a $7 million tax deduction.

She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to pursue it.

She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.

Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.

The art of live is to life in our Own Imagination.

The art of Life is to be Ourselves.

Life is the art from our inner feeling.

The second phrase was gaman, which means to find some physical practice such as meditation, calligraphy, or the making of art that would help one persevere in the face of what seemed unbearable.

Osciluji mezi dobrem a zlem. Mezi kycem a nekycem, mezi pornografii a krasnem. Rad ze sebe delam idiota, ale nikdy jsem nemyslel na penize. Ty prisly az nakonec. Nemyslet na penize - jedine tak lze stvorit neco hodnotneho.

F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.

ANOTHER PRODUCT OF THE SPRING WAS THE QUINTET IN E-FLAT FOR Piano and Winds, K. 452.