Quotes About Art

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

John Cleese, in a clever, funny talk he gave on creativity years ago, said you also need a sense of humour if you want to be creative. You can't manufacture a sense of humour, but if you don't have one, then you might indeed be better off reporting facts. Art is not about reporting.

To those who enjoy breathing the smell of incense, I recommend a different profession. The photographer pulls the sleeve of the rushed man with a blank stare and shows him the free and permanent show of the street.

A disorganized killer is much more impulsive and haphazard. Disorganized killers make mistakes, leave fingerprints, fail to keep from being seen. Organized killers consider murder to be an art that they are trying to perfect. They don't make mistakes.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Joseph Ratzinger commented that the opening line of the Nicene Creed, Credo in unum Deum (I believe in one God), is a subversive statement because it automatically rules out any rival claimant to ultimate concern. To say that one accepts only the God of Israel and Jesus Christ is to say that one rejects as ultimate any human being, any culture, any political party, any artistic form, or any set of ideas.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments," Ratzinger said, "namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

Rinaldo wrote me a deathly song there, and keen was the stylus.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

His art is eccentricity, his aimHow not to hit the mark he seems to aim at,His passion how to avoid the obvious,His technique how to vary the avoidance.The others throw to be comprehended. HeThrows to be a moment misunderstood.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

There are too many images, too many cameras now. We're all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It's just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn't an art anymore. Maybe it never was

Words are more thoughts; the photographed images always ends up having a romantic gloss about it - no matter how I try to avoid it.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.