Quotes About Art

El estancamiento y la falta de perspectivas del arte moderno corresponden al estancamiento y a la falta de perspectivas de la sociedad de la mercancía que ha agotado todos sus recursos.

Ca s? scrii, nu trebuie s? fii inteligent. Tre­buie s? fii un idiot sclipitor.

Écrire est un plaisir et une corvée.

As pinturas, e muito mais tarde, os textos serviram de marcos e de pausas para reflexão, alertas, divertimento e prazer. Ajudaram a clarificar o que deveriam ter sido confrontos confusos com a realidade. Ajudaram a deslindar e a organizar o conhecimento. Proporcionaram um caminho para a compreensão do que significam as coisas.

The idea, in essence, is that cultural activity began and remains deeply embedded in feeling. The favorable and unfavorable interplay of feeling and reason must be acknowledged if we are to understand the conflicts and contradictions of the human condition.

The formulation I presented should not diminish our determination to control external circumstances to the advantage of individuals and society, or our resolve to develop, invent, or perfect the cultural instruments with which we can make the world better: ethics, law, art, science, technology.

A Poesia é a confissão sincera do pensamento mais íntimo de uma idade

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844)

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Milton S. Terry, for example, author of one of the most conservative textbooks on hermeneutics (1890), begins: "Hermeneutics is the science of interpretation."4 Yet even Terry concedes that hermeneutics "is both a science and an art. As a science it enunciates principles . . . and classifies the facts and results. As an art, it teaches what application these principles should have . . . showing their practical value in the elucidation of more difficult scriptures.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Lou Reed: I am so susceptible to beauty.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.

When I dream, I dream I am in the museum.

How to render three dimensions in two, the world in planar spaces. It's the central challenge for every artist, Naima. Naima stepped back, reexamined her photo. Artist? she thought. An artist?

If you had to choose between art and the slogan, or between history and the slogan, you might as well choose the slogan and have done with pretending even to care about art and history. The reduction of all things to politics must reduce them, in their own right, to irrelevance.

The music of the poem lends meaning to the words, and the meaning of the words lends music to the poem.

Art reveals to us the mysteries of our existence, or perhaps reveals to us for the first time that there are mysteries at all.

In other words, man's imagination, when it is not corrupt, yearns for the holy—to behold its beauty from a distance, to be possessed by it. All the greatest art of the past, pagan and Christian, testifies to this desire. It

the usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.