Quotes About Art

Kahn once said, "The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Magic is absurd. It is a system of thinking that does not work and does not get one anywhere," said the friar. "It works, but it does not get one anywhere," said Vance. "But it is very beautiful. Magic is an art that pleases the eye and the ear," said Bulbul.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our thoughts, minds, hearts, and spirits . . . . A person who . . . does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God . . . does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.

La meditación bíblica es el arte de hablarnos a nosotros mismos acerca de lo que Dios nos ha dicho; y lo que compartimos con otros es lo que se desborda.

El único tipo de infierno que puedo concebir —dijo Espíritu— es pasar por la eternidad sin que se formen nuevas conexiones; sin ver las cosas de forma nueva; sin divertirse por el absurdo de la economía, de la religión, de la ciencia, del arte. Todo es muy, muy divertido, si lo piensas bien.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.

As pessoas de Madison County não falavam assim, sobre aquelas coisas. Falavam sobre o tempo, sobre os produtos agrícolas, dos recém-nascidos e dos enterros, dos programas do Governo e das equipas desportivas. Não da arte e dos sonhos. Não das realidades que silenciavam a música, e encerravam os sonhos dentro de uma caixa.

First you must have the images, then come the words.

You make pictures, not take them? Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image.

Rabbi Heschel replied: "I would say: Let them remember that there is a meaning beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every little deed counts, that every word has power, and that we can—every one—do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments. And above all, remember that the meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.

Later, she confessed that ego and prestige played a part; that she loved to possess, to amass. "It is not love of art," she admitted, in part facetiously. "It is voracity. I am a glutton." Her agents continued to buy everything available of beauty and value. During her reign, Catherine's collection expanded to almost four thousand paintings. She became the greatest collector and patron of art in the history of Europe.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delightOf birdsong at morning and starshine at night.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I doodle handlebarmoustaches on the last Russian Czar.

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I hear the noise of my own voice: The painter's vision is not a lens, it trembles to caress the light. But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot, lurid, rapid, garish, grouped, heightened from life, yet paralyzed by fact. from "Epilogue

I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, it's got to be a craft.. You've got to have a beginning, middle and end. And I have sort of applied the theatrical principles to writing. Throw the story in the air and see what's going to happen.