Quotes About Art

Maybe it's time for artists to get out of the studio and move into the streets? I want to focus more on unmaking.

Pencils have stories inside them, and they're safe as long as you don't stick the point in your ear.

Experience soon taught me never to write about anything important to me - the M?oris, animals, the unemployed men, the empty boarded-up houses that frightened me. The subsequent trampling of my sensibilities would have destroyed me. Soon everything I wrote came only from my imagination.

We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar.

Para entender hacia dónde vamos no hace falta fijarse en la política, sino en el arte

That the strength of Europe and of its culture, in contrast to other cultures, lies in its bent for criticism, above all, for self-criticism—in its art of analysis and inquiry, in its endless seeking, in its restlessness.

W rzeczywistoÅ›ci piÄ™kno jest trudne i do tworzenia, i pó?niej do przyjmowania. Sztuka jest bardzo arystokratyczna. Kultura mo?e by? masowa, sztuka mo?e by? tylko arystokratyczna, bo wymaga du?ego wysiÅ'ku ze strony odbiorcy.

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing.

How to be listed as a dream in the mind of a young girl is an art, going out is a masterpiece.

Precisely because a human being has the ability to speak, for this very reason the ability to keep silent is an art; and precisely because this advantage of his tempts him so easily, the ability to keep silent is a great art.

And should I not indeed be relaxed, I who consider myself the darling of the gods, to whom befell the rare good fortune to fall in love again? That, after all, is something no art, no study, can produce; it is a gift. But since I have succeeded in stirring up a love once more, I want at least to see how long it can be kept going. This love I coddle as I never did my first.

At digte sig ind i en pige er en kunst, at digte sig ud af hende er et mesterstykke.

El azar propicio aparece tan rara vez que cuando se presenta o se encuentra, hay que saberlo agarrar con toda la fuerza; el seducir a una muchacha no es un arte, pero sí lo es, ¡y cómo!, saber encontrar a una muchacha que merezca que se la seduzca.

My life achievement amounts to nothing at all, a mood, a single color

A intra ca un vis în gândurile unei fete e o art?,a reuÅŸi s?-i ieÅŸi din gând e o capodoper?

Is it such a self-deception the present generation has need of, does it need to be trained to virtuosity in self-deception, or is it not rather sufficiently perfected already in the art of deceiving itself?

As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name. (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.

The art of the cinema,' Truffaut allegedly said, 'is to point the camera at a beautiful woman.

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.