Quotes About Art

Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.

You are called to exercise the Spirit's gifts amidst the ups and downs of your daily life. Let your faith mature through your studies, work, sports, music and art. Let it be sustained by prayer and nurtured by the sacraments.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating. -Poul_Anderson

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Mendapat upah kerena menyenangkan orang lain yang tidak punya persangkutan dengan kata hati sendiri, kan itu dalam seni namanya pelacuran?

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Jangan lupa tuan kolonel, dia seniman---hidup hanya di alam perasaan.

Ia pun sesungguhnya mengerti orang-orang di gunung itu ingin belajar, ingin bergambar sebagaimana mereka yang tinggal di darat, di pantai, dan di tempat-tempat lain.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

All really good writers use fragments.

And remember that tenderness is one of the wonderful art of immortality.

Art is nothing but perceptions and horizons of feeling.

Believe me: no color is so romantic as tone.

Colors are the melodies that nature sings for beautyÛ"

Diplomacy is the art of recognizing all colors and knowing how to mix them up and bring them back as they were first.

Every literary and artistic work expresses a longing for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Strategic wriggle is an art as well as a tactic at the heart of the strategy structure ,not a change in strategy.

The most thoughtful minds are those that like colors and gestures the most.

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.