Quotes About Art

Estelle Ishigo

The practice of science was not itself a science; it was an art, to be passed from master to apprentice as the art of painting is passed or as the skills and traditions of the law or of medicine are passed.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

He'd hooked me, I am not a man who goes gaga upon touching a rare first edition of Lady Chumley's collected couplets, say, but I was interested. As I took the manuscript from him, he was saying, "Oddly enough, perhaps my greatest interest is the art and literature of India. I have, myself, visited the overpowering caves at Ellora, Ajanta, and Elephanta." I examined the manuscript with growing interest.

It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.

When you paint an evil thing, do you invoke it or take away its power?

When you have nothing to say, set something on fire. A blurry landscape is useless.

A man found a door and hung it on the wall.

Something has happened in the paint tonight and it is worth keeping.

Forget about his insides, his plumbing and his furnaces, put a thing in his hand and be done with it. No one wants to know what's in his head. It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.

The hand is a voice that can sing what the voice will not

I put on my best shirt because the painting looked so bad. Color bleeds, so make it work for you. Gravity pulls, so make it work for you. Rubbing your feet at night or clutching your stomach in the morning. It was illegible - no single line of sight, too many angles of approach, smoke in the distance. It made no sense. When you have nothing to say, set something on fire. A blurry landscape is useless.

Opera has always been my chief emotional release. Along with sex, of course.

Die menschliche Stimme ist das schönste Instrument, aber es ist am schwierigsten zu spielen.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

and pain. Critical thinking is the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

Bruckner he is my man!

Unicamente los hombres fuertes conocen el amor, solamente el amor incluye la belleza, solamente la belleza produce el arte. El amor de los débiles entre sí no puede producir sino la satisfacción de sus apetencias lujuriosas.

Only the Strong know Love; only Love can fathom Beauty; only Beauty can fashion Art.