Quotes About Art

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.

A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.

I'd be looking at some stony sculpture Michelangelo would have killed his grandmother to be able to do, and thinking, I don't know that color, that color doesn't exist, but like wow.

Picasso once said, 'It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child

I am an artist at living — my work of art is my life.

This can be your year. No, let me rephrase that: this will be your year. The year you reveal your brilliance. The year you get into world-class health. The year you fall madly in love with life. And make each one of your moments works of art. Keep shining.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul

Tu entorno moldea realmente aquello que percibes, haces y te inspira. El arte alimenta mi alma. Los buenos libros blindan mi esperanza. Las conversaciones profundas aumentan mi creatividad. La música deliciosa eleva mi corazón. Las vistas hermosas fortalecen mi espíritu.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul,'" the artist carried on. "Alice Walker said that.

Este es el secreto que los titanes de la industria, los máximos representantes del arte y los mayores triunfadores de la humanidad nunca compartirán con vosotros: el éxito colosal no depende tanto de la genética heredada como de los hábitos diarios. Y el ritual de la mañana es, con diferencia, el más importante que debéis calibrar. Y automatizar.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul," wrote American novelist Alice Walker.

I am an artist at living — my work of art is my life. Suzuki True

Art feeds my soul. Great books battleproof my hope. Rich conversations magnify my creativity. Wonderful music uplifts my heart. Beautiful sights fortify my spirit.

I lost track of time when I was in the studio painting. I will get lost in the canvas. It was a real release for me. It was almost as if I transcended time and moved into another dimension.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.

Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

Drama holds a mirror up to life, but needn't reproduce it.

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can aspire to artistic importance as a visual experience, I accept. But for most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic.

In literature, it's called plagiarism. In the movies, it's homage.

The dancers march about and twirl their scarves as if Leni Reifenstahl's Triumph of the Will had been gotten pregnant by Busby Berkeley.

Kitsch lives with one foot in the realm of aesthetics and another foot in the realm of ethics.

Nobody who is alert to beauty, therefore, is without the concept of redemption—of a final transcendence of mortal disorder into a 'kingdom of ends'. In an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence aesthetic education matters more today than at any previous period in history.

Realism...is a kind of disappointed tribute to the ideal.

There's a real question as to what beauty is and why it's important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they're not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that's in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.