Quotes About Art

In the Sitting Room, the walls were given over to framed Ape and Spy caricatures from the old Vanity Fair

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

There are only three things to be done with a woman' said Clea once. 'You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its true potential - the imagination.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.

No one thing can explain everything; though everything can illuminate something. God, I must be still drunk. If God were anything he would be an art. Sculpture or medicine. But the immense extension of knowledge in this our age, the growth of new sciences, makes it almost impossible for us to digest the available flavours and put them to use.

the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art

A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.

An artist does not have a personal life as we do, he hides it, forcing us to go to his books if we wish to touch the true source of his feelings. Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions which allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.

A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.