Quotes About Art

But his lack of artfulness is charming.

Once she had thought that she might discover some key to her mother if only she could get her likeness right, but she has since learned that the mysteries of another person only deepen, the longer one looks.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

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someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

To receive graciously is an art that cannot be faked. If it is more blessed to give than to receive, it is much harder to receive than to give. We receive ungraciously out of pride, feeling that we don't need anyone's help, handouts, or charity, or out of some sense of discomfort. These are all ego reactions, and there is no need to have them once you realize that the giver is never the giver, just as the receiver is never the receiver. Both stand in for spirit.

In the apprehension of art there can be a loneliness, as there so often is in its creation. This breaching of loneliness may be the secret of what an audience is, or at least one of its secrets.

But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

Creating means living.

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

There can be no forced inspiration.

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

The thing about glitter is, if you get it on you be prepared to have it on you forever because glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Music is what I love to do it's in my veins.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.