Quotes About Art

My revolution of the Self, which has been such an essential part of my life so far, is all about discovering death. My destiny is to make art for my own requiem: art which gives meaning to death, tracing the beauty of colours and space in the silence of death's footsteps and the 'nothingness' it promises.

Action Painting was all the rage then, and everybody was adopting this style and selling the stuff at outrageous prices. My paintings were the polar opposite in terms of intention, but I believed that producing the unique art that came from within myself was the most important thing I could do to build my life as an artist.

With this first letter I sent fourteen watercolors, including Nostalgia of the Orient, Glorious Sunset at Sea, Distressed Stars on Earth, Deep Sorrow, Kingdom of Ferns, Abandoned Heart, and Rye and Rainbow.

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle.

Every work of art stems from a wound in the soul of the artist. When a person is hurt, his immune system comes into operation, and a self-healing process takes place, mental and physical." He called art "a psychological component of the auto-immune system that gives expression to the healing process.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it most certainly not beautiful

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

The whole of life, in all its complexity and beauty, has been etched into the gold of words.

The phono-lecturer began the description of the recently invented musicometer. "… By merely rotating this handle anyone is enabled to produce about three sonatas per hour. What difficulties our predecessors had in making music! They were able to compose only by bringing themselves to attacks of inspiration, an extinct form of epilepsy.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

If [modern artists] hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved.

What difficulties our predecessors had in making music! They were able to compose only by bringing themselves to attacks of inspiration, an extinct form of epilepsy.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Our masters say that real arts never die. Real arts are about remembrance.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.