Quotes About Art

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

To deprive the bourgeoisie not of its art but of its concept of art, this is the precondition of a revolutionary argument.

Sei capace di dipingere dèi ed eroi, cittadino pittore? è un'assemblea di eroi quella che ti chiediamo. Dipingili come dèi o come mostri, o anche come uomini, se te ne viene l'estro. Dipingi Il Grande Comitato dell'anno II . Il Comitato di salute pubblica. Fanne quello che vuoi: santi, tiranni, briganti, principi. Ma mettili tutti insieme, in una bella riunione di famiglai, come fratelli.

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

TIMING TOAST Grook on how to char for yourself There's an art of knowing when. Never try to guess. Toast until it smokes and then twenty seconds less.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say- for the thousandth time- what's easier done than said.

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Nulle dies sine linea.

The one question I specifically recall being asked was how a man as evil as Hitler could paint such delightful watercolors.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Ciascuna per la sua bellezza allora era immediatamente antica, oggi, dopo molto tempo, è recente, nuova e rigogliosa. Sulle opere di Pericle fiorisce come una giovinezza perenne, esse si conservano allo sguardo indenni nel tempo, quasi posseggano infuso un respiro sempre fresco e un'anima che non conosce vecchiezza.

If we compare Sappho's poems with Anakreon's or the Sibyl's oracles with the prophet Bakis, then it is clear that the art of poetry or of prophecy is not one art practiced by men and another when practiced by women. It is the same. Can anyone protest this conclusion?

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Painting is silent poetry.

All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?