Quotes About Art

i was born a bitch. i was born a painter.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

A arte é o grande estimulante da vida

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Only sick music makes money today.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Giving style" to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The one necessary thing .— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified .

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.