Quotes About Art

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

My religion lies in my composition.

2) Singing can help us engage emotionally with words, which means that we need a broader emotional range in the songs we sing, and that singing them should be an emotional event.

Muita gente pensa que a arte é a grande sustentação da música, mas não é verdade. Há regras de lógica, de engenharia e de física subjacentes a todo o lado criativo da música.

Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.

The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman.

There's nothing wrong with making a fake that looks like a Whiteley, feels like a Whiteley, but in fact isn't a Whiteley."

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.