Quotes About Art

The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.

A thousand years makes economics silly and a work of art endures for ever, but it is very difficult to do and now it is not fashionable.

Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.

All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.

But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening, and the paintings and the cakes and the eau-devie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married—time would fix that—and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.

I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat.

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein

Dele poca importancia al vestir y no le dé ninguna importancia a la moda, cómprese vestidos cómodos y que duren, y con lo ahorrado en vestir podrá comprar cuadros

If a man liked his friend's painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and it was not polite to criticize them.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

No. Hieronymus Bosch. Very old-timer. Very good. Pieter Brueghel worked on that too.

A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts, and these now wish to cease their work because it is too lonely, too hard to do, and is not fashionable.

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know is in the horns because you have the canvas-covered bodies of the horses on the sand to prove it. He gives the feeling of his immortality, and, as you watch it, it becomes yours. Then when it belongs to both of you, he proves it with the sword.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Nu e mare lucru s? scrii. Nu faci decât s? stai jos în faÈ›a unei maÈ™ini de scris È™i s? sângerezi.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed

Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right.

Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?" "For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his pince-nez. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Die Rache der Sprache ist das Gedicht

There is a Universal Creative Force connecting all beings and things, a source of love and wisdom that can be drawn from and revealed through the creation of works of art.

Our lives will become our greatest works of art not only when our relationships are a beautiful expression of love, acceptance, and intimacy, but when we have a deep sense of purpose that produces accomplishments that express, for us, success and significance.