Quotes About Art

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

Muscle is good, but craft is better

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.