Quotes About Art

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

It's bad enough when they refer to medical science as 'an inexact science,' says the Mother. But when they start referring to it as 'an art,' I get extremely nervous.

his hair was a production, of nature and art: it was as if his face had washed up on his head, like a tide, and left its mark, and then some artistic boy had come along to the same beach with a little paint.

This is a Hieronymous Bosch of facts and figures and blood and graphs.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

What we play is life.

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you'll never know.

What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.

Man, all music is folk music. You ain't never heard no horse sing a song, have you?

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Symmetry is only a property of dead things.

I am ashamed. I play a diminshed chord because I am diminished.

The Indian must not lose pride in what he does, in his handicraft, for if he loses pride he will no longer build, his art will fail him, and he will completely be dependent upon others.

There was much to learn of people, much to learn of the art of government, which had suddenly become my responsibility. I had already learned to listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions.

pretty face, I mean vase.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

the violin — that most human of all instruments…

A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them, the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. So romancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave their lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives.

Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background

You look like Balzac's 'Femme Peinte Par Elle — Meme'," he said, as he fanned her with one hand and held her coffee cup in the other.