Quotes About Art

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

Los dormidos, y los muertos, no son sino como pinturas', dijo nuestro Shakespeare, y yo a veces pienso que las personas todas son sólo eso, como pinturas, dormidos presentes y futuros muertos.

Cuando estás triste, no hay nada como Adele para ponerte aún peor.

lo clásico nunca muere, porque la belleza es eterna.

La retórica es el arte de la influencia, la amistad y la elocuencia, del ingenio y la lógica irrefutable. Y emplea la más poderosa de las fuerzas sociales: la argumentación.