Quotes About Art

if only you could breathe onto the paper in all its fullness and warmth what is so alive in you, so that it would mirror your soul

Ach Gott! die Kunst ist lang; und kurz ist unser Leben.

Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke.

Wer das Dichten will verstehen, muß ins Land der Dichtung gehen; wer den Dichter will verstehen, muß in Dichters Lande gehen.

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, hat auch Religion; wer jene beiden nicht besitzt, der habe Religion.

It is hard to write, not, as might be expected, for reasons of metre or scholarship or elaborate symbolism, but because the actual writing depends almost entirely on the chance, the mood, the energy, of the moment.

I often lose patience, when, with a glowing imagination, I am giving expression to art and nature, he interferes with learned suggestions, and uses at random the technical phraseology of artists.

For true art there is no such thing as preparatory schooling, but there are certainly preparations; the best, however, is when the least pupil takes a share in master's work. Colour-grinders have turned into very good artists.

Ich könnte jetzt nicht zeichnen, nicht einen Strich, und bin nie ein größerer Maler gewesen als in diesen Augenblicken.

One cannot escape the world more certainly through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art

dingin bir varolu? duygusuna öylesine dal?p gittim ki, sanat?m bundan zararl? ç?k?yor. "

Inferior talents do not enjoy art for its own sake; while at work they have nothing before their eyes but the profit they hope to make when they have done. With such worldly views and tendencies, nothing great was ever yet produced.

Die Stimmung, die von der Baukunst ausgeht, kommt dem Effekt der Musik nahe.

Schöpft des Dichters reine Hand,. Wasser wird sich ballen. __Lied und Gebilde

Život je naljepši pronalazak prirode, a smrt njena vještina, da što bolje iskoristimo život.

Non c'è mezzo più sicuro per sfuggire al mondo che l'arte, e non ci si lega a esso con maggior sicurezza che tramite l'arte.

L'arte si occupa del difficile e del buono. Vedere trattate le cose difficili con facilità ci dà l'idea dell'impossibile.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling?… Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive—pleasure, love—can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift us out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

I never felt happier, I never understood nature better, even down to the veriest stem or smallest blade of grass; and yet I am unable to express myself: my powers of execution are so weak, everything seems to swim and float before me, so that I cannot make a clear, bold outline. But I fancy I should succeed better if I had some clay or wax to model.

Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. III 18

My work as a painter… is the condensation, the concentration of the hidden, but ever present, sadness that is in all people

Almost every generation believes that art and music and the work ethic and you name it aren't as good as they used to be ... historians have noted how the belief that society is changing for the worse is a constant going back thousands of years.