Quotes About Art

Poate p?rea ciudat, dar cele mai apropiate de realitate sunt întotdeauna operele literare considerate a fi cel mai puÅ£in adev?rate. S-ar putea ca realitatea în totalitatea ei s? fie întotdeauna mult prea puÅ£in demn? de a fi înregistrat?, prea lipsit? de sens sau prea oribil? pentru a r?mâne neliteraturizat?.

If only good intentions were enough to make good poetry!

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Éste es el precio que debemos pagar por la estabilidad. Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro.

Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.

Preaching is an art, and in this, as in all other arts, the bad performers far outnumber the good.

Yes, Mustapha Mond was saying, that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Music 'says' things about the world, but in specifically musical terms. Any attempt to reproduce these musical statements 'in our own words' is necessarily doomed to failure.

For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them.

William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved art had emerged bedimmed and bemired, less, other and uglier than themselves.

But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.

ÇoÄŸumuzun sadece meskalin etkisi alt?nda gördüÄŸünü her zaman görme yetisi sanatç?ya doÄŸuÅŸtan verilmiÅŸtir. Onun alg?s? biyolojik ve toplumsal olarak yararl? olanla s?n?rl? deÄŸildir. Büyük bilince ait bilginin biraz? beyin ve egonun indirgeme filtresinden s?zar ve sanatç?n?n bilincine akar.

Mary looked at the picture for some time without saying anything. Indeed, she didn't know what to say; she was taken aback, she was at a loss. She had expected a cubist masterpiece, and here was a picture of a man and a horse, not only recognisable as such, but even aggressively in drawing.

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations. Out of the same documents and monuments and works of art, every epoch invents its own Middle Ages, its private China, its patented and copyrighted Hellas.

What I glory in is the civilized, middle way between stink and asepsis. Give me a little musk, a little intoxicating feminine exhalation, the bouquet of old wine and strawberries, a lavender bag under every pillow and potpourri in the corners of the drawing-room. Readable books, amusing conversation, civilized women, graceful art and dry vintage, music, with a quiet life and reasonable comfort?—that's all I ask for.

In nature, as in work of art, the isolation of an object tends to invest it with absoluteness, to endow it with that more-than-symbolic meaning which is identical with being.

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science.

Arta, presupun, r?mâne apanajul exclusiv al încep?torilor ori al celor hot?râÈ›i s? nu mai ias? din impas, mulÈ›umindu-se cu surogatul Realit??ii Absolute, cu simboluri, în loc de ceea ce semnific?, È™i cu reÈ›ete elegant compuse, în locul dineului propriu-zis.

Nothing can exceed in beauty and in vision-inducing power the mosaics of gardens and buildings in the great Omayyad mosque at Damascus.

Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro y en su lugar hemos puesto el sensorama y el órgano de perfumes. - Pero no tienen ningún mensaje. + Si, el mensaje consiste en emitir una gran cantidad de sensaciones agradables para el público.

Uno debe poder sentirse herido y trastornado; de lo contrario, no puede pensar frases realmente buenas, penetrantes como los rayos X.

picked up the first volume that came to hand. It was on Van Gogh, and the picture at which the book opened was "The Chair"—that astounding portrait of a Ding an Sich, which the mad painter saw, with a kind of adoring terror, and tried to render on his canvas. But it was a task to which the power even of genius proved wholly inadequate. The chair Van Gogh had seen was obviously the same in essence as the chair I had seen.

That art thou': 'Behold but One in all things' -God within and God without. There is a way to Reality in and through the soul, and there is a way to Reality in and through the world. Whether the ultimate goal can be reached by following either of these ways to the exclusion of the other is to be doubted. The third, best and hardest way is that which leads to the divine Ground simultaneously in the perceiver and in that which is perceived.

It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.