Quotes About Art

I paint with shapes.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Destroying art is practice for destroying people.

Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?

Write fiction about your life and pay with your life, at least three times. Here is the ax.

That art -- even, or perhaps especially, art that is dedicated somehow to tenderness, dedicated as a lover who would offer something to her beloved in the last nights they'll share before she leaves this life forever -- is not weak. It is strength.

I wanted to lead my students to another world, one where people value writing and art more than war, and yet I knew and I know that the only thing that matters is to make that world here. There is no other world. This is the only world we are in. This revisable country, so difficult to change, to easily changed.

El proceso creativo frecuentemente conlleva algún dolor en el esfuerzo por lograr que una concepción dé frutos.

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold:For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,The last and greatest art—the art to blot.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense;The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic Glass, Its gawdy Colours spreads on ev'ry place; The Face of Nature was no more Survey, All glares alike, without Distinction gay: But true Expression, like th' unchanging Sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all Objects, but it alters none.

One science only will one genius fit/ So vast is art, so narrow human wit

She sins with poets through pure love of wit

Ye sacred nine