Quotes About Art

Escrever é esquecer. A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida. A música embala, as artes visuais animam, as artes vivas (como a dança e o representar) entretêm

It seems that civilizations exist only to produce art and literature; words are what speak for them and remain. How do we know that these extra-human figures aren't truly real? It tortures my mind to think this might be the case…

Science describes things as they are; art as they are felt, as they are felt to be.

I'm convinced that in a perfect, civilized world there would be no other art but prose.

Let us watch Time painting the world and finding the resulting picture not only false but hollow.

We're well aware that every creative work is imperfect and that our most dubious aesthetic contemplation will be the one whose object is what we write. But everything is imperfect. There's no sunset so lovely it couldn't be yet lovelier, no gentle breeze bringing us sleep that couldn't bring yet sounder sleep.

What would become of the world if we were human? If man really felt, there would be no civilization. Art is a refuge for the sensibility that action was obliged to forget.

Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it. It seems that civilization exists only to produce art and literature; words are what speak for it and remain. How do we know that these extra-human figures aren't truly real? It tortures my mind to think this might be the case

Art is Cinderella, who stayed at home because that's how it had to be.

The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance of rules, few could attempt to be artists, and a fair number of these were quite good. But when art, instead of being understood as creation, became merely an expression of feelings, then anyone could be an artist, because everyone has feelings.

Todo cuanto hacemos, en el arte o en la vida, es la copia imperfecta de lo que hemos pensado hacer.

Todo arte es una forma de literatura, porque consiste en expresar algo. Hay dos formas de expresarlo: hablar y callarse. Las artes que no pertenecen a la literatura son la proyección de un silencio expresivo.

El arte todo, toda la libertad, consiste en someter el espíritu lo menos posible, dejando al cuerpo que se someta a la voluntad.

Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.

visito con solemnidad mientras escribo. Tengo salas especiales, recordadas por otros en los resquicios de la figuración, donde me deleito analizando lo que no siento y me examino como si examinara un cuadro en la sombra.

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells. Art, if it frees us from the abstract idols of old, should also free us from magnanimous ideas and social concerns, which are likewise idols.

A arte serve de fuga para a sensilidade que a acção teve de esquecer.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel, in freeing them from themselves, by offering them our own personality as a liberation.

Como atividade cientifica, virtual que seja, procura conhecer; como atividade artística, procura sentir

Everything we do, in art and life, is the imperfect copy of what we intended.

Disdain everything, but in such a way that your disdain doesn't disturb you. Don't think you're superior because you disdain. This is the key to the art of noble disdain.

Porque no vayáis a creer que escribo para publicar, ni para escribir, ni siquiera por hacer arte. Escribo porque ese es el fin, la perfección suprema, la perfección temperamentalmente ilógica [...] de mi cultivo de estados del alma.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all aims, objectives and intentions.

La letteratura, come tutta l'arte, è la confessione che la vita non basta.