Quotes About Art

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Nobody believes anything that's put in a poem.

SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few appreciative eyes. I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all, except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush, and it is the same river who, before I can bring my friends to view his work, erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in the mind's eye.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or prizes or for being "taken up" by prominent art lovers. I simply hoped I could learn to do something well.

I am by nature a self-improver. I have read Gibbon, I have read Proust. I read the Old and New Testaments and most of Shakespeare. I studied French. I have meditated. I jogged. I learned to draw, using the right side of my brain.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.

La poesía produce una soledad tan bella…

to write is to give meaning to suffering

you have to cry until you break in order to make or utter a small song, to scream so much to fill the holes of absence that's what you did, what I did.

No creo en la poesía. Ningún poema puede dar cuenta de la intensidad de los deseos. A lo sumo, puede redactar, posteriormente, una crónica más o menos fascinante de lo que pasó. pero un poema no es algo que sucede. Tal vez el poema pueda invocar el suceso o consolar de su no venida.

Es penoso escribir un libro que exige una continuidad. Además, no tengo ganas de contar nada.

Adagio japonés sobre la poesía como pintura dotada de voz.

No eres tú la culpable de que tu poema hable de lo que no eres." - Alejandra Pizarnik

Pero tengo miedo de confundir literatura y vida.

Necesito prepararme. Y tengo que hacer artículos como si ya estuviese preparada. Por eso esta perpetua sensación de estar engañando.

Vendrás a mí con tu voz apenas coloreada por un acento que me hará evocar una puerta abierta, con la sombra de un pájaro de bello nombre, con lo que esa sombra deja en la memoria, con los trazos que duran en la hoja después de haber borrado un dibujo que representaba una casa, el sol y un animal.

Escribir un poema es reparar la herida fundamental, la desgarradura. Porque todos estamos heridos