Quotes About Art

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

I live my daydreams in music.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.

une Net artiste est une artiste pas nette

Fue un parto», dicen los que no saben o los que creen que el arte real surge del sufrimiento. Para sufrir y pasarlo mal no hay que ser artista; todos más o menos sufren y saben cómo curarse.

leí ene, incluso cosas densas como Lafourcade o el Pablo Huneeus

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

L'art rallume toujours les lumières du paradis perdu

The Creator fashioned men once and for all as they must be, and I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.