Quotes About Art

Drawing is to art as grammar is to language: you can speak without any knowledge of grammar, but do not expect to be understood, and certainly do not expect to become a poet.

Even though are canvass was small, still we could paint a masterpiece.

Objet de poésies mutines, Vase d'amour bien émouvant Toi qui m'a enivré souvent

Art creates the Eden where Adam and Eve eat the serpent.

The symbol of art is the tombstone, thought Darconville, an obelisk sticking up out of the earth with the inscription, "I count!

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.

the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

Poiché mi sembrate un intenditore d'arte, vi chiedo il permesso di mostrarvi un giorno o l'altro la mia galleria, ricca di quadri antichi, tutti di grandi autori; i moderni non mi piacciono. - Avete ragione; essi hanno, almeno, un grande difetto: di non aver avuto ancora il tempo di diventare antichi.

Magick is the science and art of causing change (in consciousness) to occur in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by traditional Western science . . ." In this case "will" is understood not in terms of the individual's petty wants and desires, but rather as an intention that is in harmony with the fundamental essence of the individual's Higher Self, and also in full accord with natural or cosmic law.

Creation's the soul of haphazard.

she shapes her surface lights into the shape of breasts.

Guilt, of course, is the predominant theme of Hitchcock's films. It derives not only from the complexities of his own inner life: guilt is also one of the great themes in all art, and especially in contemporary art and literature.

I've always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

Costuming is an art," Betty added. "And we believe that catering to the darker nature of mankind is unwise. We concentrate on beauty.

If we profess to be teaching Yoga, which is a science and art of living, we must practice that way of living ourselves. If we wish only to teach poses or postures, it would be better to call what we do by a name other than Yoga.

if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I love this picture because it's universal.' 'I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.

Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror.

The original painters of angels mistook our aura of light for wings, so they depicted us with wings in their paintings, and we appear to you this way so that you will know

Anything you can do to make the world a more beautiful place is worth trying.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art—borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.