Quotes About Art

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

La belleza es pura secreción de la cultura como los cálculos lo son del riñón

Novels are not humanitarian reports. Indeed, let us be thankful that there remains sufficient cruelty, without which beauty would not be.

The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble.

All diese Ratschläge, die ich Dir gebe, sind vergeblich und töricht. Niemand wird sie befolgen können. Aber ich wollte nichts anderes als: Bei Gelegenheit Deiner Kunst ein Gedicht schreiben, dessen Inbrunst Dir in die Wangen steigt. Es handelte sich darum, Dich zu entflammen, nicht Dich zu lehren." -Genet (Der Seiltänzer)

And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out like old bathwater, leaving humanity naked and shivering on the dirty ground. He

Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its core value the belief that human beings can learn and grow and change, and that art—and literature—can fuel that evolution. But

tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it's art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It's

Real acting is never personal.

Every edit is a lie.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

I collect art. That's my weakness. I keep saying, "We've got to put a moratorium on it, we don't have room," but I keep buying it.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

What was there in the world more Western than Mozart, more civilized, more perfect? No eight hundred thousand voices could drone their chant to Mozart's notes. Mozart had never written to stir the masses, but to touch the heart of each single human being, in his private self.

Mozart nunca escribió para conmover a las masas, sino para tocar el corazón de cada ser humano en su intimidad

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.