Quotes About Art

Finally, the breaking up of the scenes into shots and their assemblage is the equivalent of an expressionism

FOREWORD by François Truffaut

The sound of a windshield-wiper against a page of Diderot is all it took to turn it into Racinian dialogue

Is not neorealism primarily a kind of humanism and only secondarily a style of film-making?

speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine. (Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)

Asimismo, he podido desear ver construir un objeto muy especial que respondiese a una fantasía poética cualquiera.

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

Chère imagination, ce que j'aime surtout en toi, c'est que tu ne pardonnes pas.

Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it an attitude of consumerist pleasure.

We have said nothing about Chirico until we take into account his most personal views about the artichoke, the glove, the cookie, or the spool.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or it will not be at all.

Of verse eternal I've the art. And men Are gladdened by my voice, which speaks but truth. The supreme reason that I proudly bear Could not be bought for all a world of gold. All have I touched: women, apples, fire; All have I felt: winter, spring, and summer; All have I found, for no wall can halt me. But tell me, Fortune, what then is thy name? Charles Cros, 1842–1888

O mundo é o verdadeiro espelho em que o homem se busca. A arte não passa de um reflexo em que ele se encontra.

Fashion can be an emotional experience.

On ne peut pas faire un art qui parle aux masses quand on n'a rien à leur dire, mais nous luttons ensemble, nous voulons faire une autre vie ensemble, et nous avons tout à nous dire.

But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself. -- Pablo Picasso

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.