Quotes About Art

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

Tutto ciò che di grande e bello c'è al mondo, gratta gratta, non è mai nato da un discorso razionale. Mai.

Sotto le nuvole bianche, cade la neve. Non si vedono né le nuvole, né la neve. Né il gelo, né lo splendore candido della terra. Un omino solo scivola sopra i suoi sci e va. La neve cade. Cade fino a che l'omino scompare tornando nella sua opacità. Il mio amico Serge, un amico di tanti e tanti anni, ha comprato un quadro. E' una tela di circa un metro e sessanta per uno e venti. Raffigura un uomo che attraversa lo spazio e poi scompare.

Weißt Du, daß es außer den über dreißig Farben in einem Farbtub-Kasten noch eine weitere, für Menschenaugen sehr wohl sichtbare Farbe gibt — die der Traurigkeit?

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

Creating art and writing novels and poems are simply different roads I have chosen in my search for truth.

O Time: hold still awhile. I have so much more work to do. There are so many things I want to express. But time just keeps ticking away, and the earth never for an instant ceases to turn.