Quotes About Art

Traza una línea, dale un golpe de color al lienzo... y todo se aclarará.

Art," said Picasso, "is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude!

O for ten years, that I may overwhelmMyself in poesy; so I may do the deedThat my own soul has to itself decreed.

A drainless showerOf light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power;'Tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

A Poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no Identity—he is continually infor[ming]—and filling some other Body.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - Ode to a Grecian Urn

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

How many bards gild the lapses of time!

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

fitching v. intr. compulsively turning away from works of art you find frustratingly, nauseatingly good-wanting to shut off the film and leave the theater, or devour a book in maddening little chunks, because it resonates at precisely the right frequency to rattle you to your core, which makes it mildly uncomfortable to be yourself.

gobo n. the delirium of having spent all day in an aesthetic frame of mind-watching a beautiful movie, taking photos across the city, getting lost in an art museum-which infuses the world with an aura of meaning, until every crack in the wall becomes a commitment to naturalism, and every rainbow swirling in a puddle feels like a choice.

Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art—whatever—knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.