Quotes About Art

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

It is the artist who is truthful, while the photographer is mendacious; for, in reality, time never stops cold.

The dazzling splendour revealed to the artist by the model that divests herself of her clothes has the effect of the sun piercing the clouds. Venus, Eve, these are feeble terms to express the beauty of women.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

There is grace in elegance, but beyond grace there is perfection

At times his own heart is on the rack, yet stronger than his pain is the bitter joy which he experiences in understanding and giving expression to that pain.

Words are dirty by nature.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

All that I see came to me in colors.

Music can reach depths words can't.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. 'Learning' will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it has no idea of potential divinity! Decoration is its creed and vital allegory is its belief. Being the 'Free Morality,' it has no sin – then most assuredly Art is all we dare express without excuse.

If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . however much we so desire, having conflicting ideas to first exhaust. Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief organic, ergo, true belief.