Quotes About Art

Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song. These are the occasions when the bolts of the universe fly open and we are given a glimpse of what is hidden; an eff of the ineffable.

People can delight in the saddest of sob-stuff, as long as they find it beautiful.

I think it's legitimate for a work of art made in the present time to say, we are being crippled by the culture we have made, by its most popular elements above all', he replied. 'And by stupidity and ignorant and bigotry, yes'.

An image has a shape and so does sound and so does montage and so does drama. The film sense is that art which ensures that the four shapes are the same.

Construction work was the art of making the city become aware of itself as a fragile organism at the mercy of forces against which there was no appeal.

It is a true desire of every artist to impose his or her vision on the world

music was what he feared and hated most, because music slid beneath the thinking mind to seize the heart;

As a young man he had shared a room with a painter whose paintings had grown larger and larger as he tried to get the whole of life into his art.[...]The swollen events of the night of the crescent knives reminded Nadir Khan of his room-mate, because life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized.

Aurora's studio she stole three charcoal sketches of me as a young boy, sketches in which my ruined hand had been wondrously metamorphosed, becoming, variously, a flower, a paintbrush and a sword. Miss Jaya took these sketches to my Dilly's flat and said they were a gift from the 'young Sahib'. Then she told Aurora that she had seen the teacher pinching them, and, excuse me, Begum Sahib, but that woman's attitude to our boy is not a moral one.

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.