Quotes About Art

The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.

Ora so che l'amore è l'unica cosa che valga davvero la pena di avere. Tutto il resto, talento, lavoro, arte, religione, conoscenza e tutti gli altri terreni affanni altro non sono che rimedi con i quali coloro che non amano, coloro che non sono amati, tentano di attenuare le loro pene, di anestetizzarsi.

Ruskin's, whose Stones of Venice

I came away quite joyfully, and with many a loving thought of my own dear ragged garden, and all the corners in it where the anemones twinkle in the spring like stars, and where there is so much nature and so little art.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

The demiurge is a hybrid

Acaso el último y verdadero sentido de la creación del artista consista en extender un velo sobre el sinsentido de la vida.

Para mí solo hay un infortunio: ¡tener que vivir y no poder crear!

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Connectedness is of the essence of all things of all types. It is of the essence of types, that they be connected. Abstraction from connectedness involves the omission of an essential factor in the fact considered. No fact is merely itself. The penetration of literature and art at their height arises from our dumb sense that we have passed beyond mythology; namely, beyond the myth of isolation.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.

Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

When I make a picture, I make love.

Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained.