Quotes About Art

Not a day without a line.

T]he Pictures of the Pen shall outlast those of the Pencil, and even Worlds themselves.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

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For J.-L.G., color does not exist simply to show us that a girl has blue eyes or that a certain gentleman is a member of the Legion of Honor. By necessity, a film by Godard that offers the possibility of color is going to show us something that could not be shown in black and white, a kind of voice that cannot resound ehen colors are mute.

People are not alone in making art. Even the smallest animals can create things of beauty. Even the smallest animals have power and can help set things right in the world. Beautiful things are being made all the time and can still work great wonders. A tiny web of silk, a small jar of earth, can hold a glowing ember of the sun to help light the world.

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

music can reach those places where words alone can't go.

When a child loses confidence in his or her creativity, the impact can be profound. People start to separate the world into those who are creative and those who are not. They come to see these categories as fixed, forgetting that they too once loved to draw and tell imaginative stories. Too often they opt out of being creative.

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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

There's no art where there's no fee.

An actor should refine public taste.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Beauty is the gift of God.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

The most beautiful colors, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as the chalk outline of a portrait.

The reason why men enjoy seeing a likeness is, that in contemplating it they find themselves learning or inferring, and saying perhaps, "Ah, that is he." For if you happen not to have seen the original, the pleasure will be due not to the imitation as such, but to the execution, the coloring, or some such other cause.

Novices in the art attain to finish of diction and precision of portraiture before they can construct the plot.