Quotes About Art

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.

Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul, George, and Ringo." He pauses, seeing the blank look on my face and groaning when he says, "Christ, Ever, the Beatles!" He shakes his head and laughs. "God, you make me feel old.

Everyone has to start somewhere,' he says, his eyes dark and smoldering, his fingers seeking the scar on my face. The one on my forehead. The one that's hidden under my bangs. The one he has no way of knowing about. 'Even Picasso had a teacher.' He smiles, withdrawing his hand and the warmth that came with it, returning to his painting, as I remind myself to breathe.

That was the exhilaration of creating one's own compositions, that one's personal melodies could be reborn in the voices and spirits of others.

Pero para poder sobrevivir en este mundo extraño, tuve que aprender que el amor se parecía mucho a la pintura. El espacio negativo entre las personas era tan importante como el espacio positivo que ocupan.

It's easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath.

But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in between our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship—the laughter and the memories—were the brushstrokes applied over time.

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.

La neuvième de Beethoven serait insoutenable aux oreilles si elle ne comportait des hésitations désespérés ...

Hay bellezas que saltan a la vista y otras que están escritas en jeroglíficos.

La scrittura comincia là dove si ferma la parola, ed è un grande mistero il passaggio dall'indicibile al dicibile.

El hambre epistolar es un arte, y yo aspiro a alcanzar la excelencia.

Preparare brava gente a incontrarmi! Una disciplina che si chiamerebbe "Arte di affrontare i geni"! Che orrore!

Et pourquoi le violoncelle ? - Parce que c'est l'instrument qui ressemble le plus à la voix humaine.

Modifier le regard : c'est ça notre grand-oeuvre.

L'ebbrezza non si improvvisa. Rientra nel campo dell'arte, che esige talento e cura. Bere a caso non porta da nessuna parte. Se la prima sbornia il più delle volte ha del miracoloso, dipende unicamente dalla nota fortuna del principiante: situazione che, per definizione, non si ripeterà.

I cinesi hanno dovuto imparare a mangiare l'immangiabile, e di qui la raffinatezza ineguagliata della loro arte culinaria. Esiste una civiltà più brillante e ingegnosa? I cinesi hanno inventato tutto, pensato tutto, compreso tutto, osato tutto. Studiare la Cina è studiare l'intelligenza.

Pardonnez-moi, je ne parviens pas à comprendre votre peinture. Pourriez-vous m'expliquer? - Il n'y a rien à comprendre, rien à expliquer, répondit-il avec dégoût. Il y a à ressentir. - Précisément, je ne ressens rien. - Tant pis pour vous

Il n'y a pas d'art plus grand que celui de vivre

J'ai beau savoir qu'écrire est dangereux et qu'on y risque sa vie, je m'y laisse toujours prendre.

Le maquillage est un culte à mystère.

Me atraía la idea de no saber si iba a ver pintura, escultura o una retrospectiva de cachivaches varios. Uno siempre debería acudir a las exposiciones así, por azar, con absoluta ignorancia. Alguien desea mostrarnos algo: eso es lo único que importa.