Quotes About Art

I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

In winter we often go down to the cellar and contemplate the art gallery. When a blizzard is howling outside is the best time.

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.

How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn off, except for faint touches of red, in the fury of the king's eyes, on the queen's lower lip, in the bishop's robe.

Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

I'm going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

los oficios creativos provocan dolores aquí o allá, y que hay que saber aliviarlos sin cerrar del todo esa herida de la que nacen las imágenes, los cuentos o la música.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy their model and accidentally creating something new. The closer you get to your ideal, the less original you sound.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

My first lyric departed directly from Mingus's title "This Subdues My Passion." If you didn't think the song was already half written after that title, then you had no business dallying with the tune in the first place. I wrote about the way that music tempers the violence within a man. This subdues my passion And it may control my rage It may stem the poison that spills out onto the page

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

Bach, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoievski ÅŸi Nietzsche sunt singurul argument împotriva monoteismului.

What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naiveté, without which the arts can never begin again.

El arte de amar ? Saber unir el temperamento de un vampiro y la discreción de una anémona.

To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.

Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.

Cea mai mare întâlnire din viaÅ£a mea: Bach. Dup? el, Dostoievski; apoi scepticii greci, apoi Buddha... pe urm?, dar ce mai conteaz? ce vine pe urm?...

Nu tr?irile tale m? intereseaz?, ci felul în care le prezinÈ›i. O via?? nu este o oper?.