Quotes About Art

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.

Ei sovi että runoilijan talosta kuuluu valitusta

niin kuin Lesboksen runoilija, kaikkia muita etevämpi

Come holy lyre speak to me and become a voice!

It is not right in a house serving the Muses to have mourning. For us it is unbecoming.

It's easy to get lost in the history here—the beautiful art, the ability to walk around a first century city—and forget that thousands of people died here…in hours," Zoe said, glancing into the distance where Mt. Vesuvius was clearly visible, dark against the blue sky.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

Splashes of crimson,

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands.

food to nourish the imagination

as Flannery O'Connor put it, "In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is inseparable from the whole meaning of it. The form of a story gives it meaning which any other form would change."6

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit ... must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.

A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

Have it your way. I'm happy to hear it's not just about your 'artistic integrity.'" "That's important too," Kelo said. "If I betray my art, I betray my soul." "You really spew a lot of bullshit for one so handsome.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.