Quotes About Art

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence.

The objective nature of photography confers on it a quality of credibility absent from all other picture-making.

Painting was forced, as it turned out, to offer us illusion and this illusion was reckoned sufficient unto art. Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and in its very essence, our obsession with realism.

The filmmaker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.

Originality in photography as distinct from originality in painting lies in the essentially objective character of photography. For the first time, between the originating object and its reproduction there intervenes only the instrumentality of a nonliving agent. For the first time an image of the world is formed automatically, without the creative intervention of man.

Hence the charm of family albums. Those grey or sepia shadows, phantomlike and almost undecipherable, are no longer traditional family portraits but rather the disturbing presence of lives halted at a set moment in their duration, freed from their destiny; not, however, by the prestige of art but by the power of an impassive mechanical process.

Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled.

Surrealism is only trying to rejoin the most durable traditions of mankind. Among the primitive peoples art always goes beyond what is conventionally and arbitrarily called the 'real'.

ver trabajar a un artesano me calma, me ancla en la tierra, me inspira. Me recuerda la extraordinaria importancia que en este mundo tiene el trabajo bien hecho.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.