Quotes About Art

?yi bir ?iir anlamla yola ç?kmaya her zaman engeldir. Her ?eyden önce bir ?iirden düzyaz?dan anlad???m?z anlamda bir anlam beklemek, ona öyle yakla?mak ?iirin do?as?na ayk?r?d?r." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 55

One does not paint a landscape, a seascape, a figure. One paints an impression of an hour of the day.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Estoy convencido, Lucas, de que todo ser humano ha nacido para escribir un libro, solo para eso. Un libro genial o un libro mediocre, da igual, pero el que no escriba nada es un ser malogrado, que ha pasado por la tierra sin dejar ninguna huella.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

but I have always suspected that one could substitute the Minuet of Haydn's 98th symphony for the Minuet in Haydn's 99th symphony without sensing a serious lack of coherence in either work.

As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather low artistic mentality never to believe anything you see unless it appears to be real. One must be willing to allow that symbolic things also mirror realities and sometimes provide greater esthetic pleasure than the merely realistic.

The important thing is that each one feel for himself the specific expressive quality of a theme or, similarly, an entire piece of music. And if it is a great work of art, don't expect it to mean exactly the same thing to you each time you return to it.

As a matter of fact, the experience of most composers has been that the more complete a theme is the less possibility there is of seeing it in various aspects. If the theme itself, in its original form, is long enough and complete enough, the composer may have difficulty in seeing it in any other way. It already exists in its definitive form. That is why great music can be written on themes that in themselves are insignificant.

Music must always flow, for that is part of its very essence, but the creation of that continuity and flow--that long line-- constitutes the be-all and end-all of every composer's existence.

music is the sound of emotion, expressed through art, from musician to audience.

When I walk into a house and see good paintings on the wall, I can smell money. But when I see tatty old carpets on the floor under them, I smell real money.

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

the essence of art is its constant redefinition. So the moment that architecture wants to redefine itself, it moves into art. That's why the pairing of art and architecture is desirable, not as an excuse but as a vector of moving towards something else.

Poetry does important work and that work has a bearing on real life, but I've often been stymied by the question of how poems can effect material change in a world that is, generally, not especially interested in what poetry or poets have to say.

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

Don't blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story. If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.