Quotes About Art

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

The big art is our life.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I don't exist without writing.

Most of the makers of the twentieth-century mind, figures such as Freud, Heisenberg, Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot, have in common an about-face on the subject-object question and the mindmatter question; they all reject the dualism that arbitrarily and irreversibly splits the world into pieces. This rejection of dualism and the corresponding reach for monism are of the essence in understanding the revolutionary nature of twentieth-century science and art.

Jhin, League of Legends

I gently moved her hand away. "This is an ink painting. It only uses black ink.

What would she have thought as a teenage girl arranging her artfully wasted limbs against the dais of a highly conceptual sculpture?

I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and not another way?

The dead walk into poems all the time Nobody complains

To bring the balloon of the mind that bellies and drags in the wind, as Yeats had so perfectly put it, into its narrow shed.

I suspect that if aliens did come to Earth, it would be as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of life on Earth, to meet humanity and learn of our art, music, culture, languages, philosophies and religions.