Quotes About Art

What was the matter that pureness of feeling couldn't be kept up? I see I met those writers in the big book of utopias at a peculiar time. In those utopias, set up by hopes and art, how could you overlook the part of nature or be sure you could keep the feelings up?

told him a lot, right then and there. What? Well, for instance, that chaos doesn't run the whole show. That this is not a sick and hasty ride, helpless, through a dream into oblivion. No, sir! It can be arrested by a thing or two. By art, for instance. The speed is checked, the time is redivided. Measure! That great thought. Mystery! The voices of angels!

Ljepota nije ljudski izum.

She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, "I never see trees like that." He told her, "No, ma'am, but don't you wish you could?" This could be a variation on "Ye have eyes and see not," an aesthete's version of it.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

I wonder whether there will ever be enough tranquility under modern circumstances to allow our contemporary Wordsworth to recollect anything. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Recapping my skill set: I have poor art skills, mediocre business skills, good but not great writing talent, and an early knowledge of the Internet. And I have a good but not great sense of humor. I'm like one big mediocre soup. None of my skills are world-class, but when my mediocre skills are combined, they become a powerful market force.

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

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Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.

Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?

We were the first to carve forms: we began The depiction of gods in the image of Man.

I have spent the day well just looking and looking. It is the same in art as in life. The deeper one penetrates, the broader grows the view.

Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.

One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak a few reasonable words

Oh God, art is forever, And our life is brief.

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.

Oh, God! Art is long And life is short.

There is no surer way of evading the world than by art; and no surer way of uniting with it than by art.

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

ach, kon je dat maar weer uitdrukken, kon je het papier inblazen wat zo overdadig leeft; zodat het de spiegel werd van je ziel, zoals je ziel de spiegel is van de oneindige God! – Mijn vriend — Maar ik ga er aan te gronde, ik bezwijk onder het geweld van de pracht van wat ik zie.

?u s?ralar resim yapmam mümkün de?il, bir çizgi bile çizemiyorum, oysa ben hiç ?u andakinden daha büyük bir ressam olmad?m.