Quotes About Art

Deep Love is slow of speech and void of art; Silence and timid tears reveal his heart. But shallow Love is ever eloquent To mouth his meagre passion -- and depart.

Our sorrows are the golden grain Of the great reaper--Art.

The difference between a painter and a musician, or between a poet and a novelist, is not a difference of qualities in the entity itself; for each unit contains everything except quantity, and thus has the possibilities of development along any line chosen by its will.

You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang.

It is an abnormal thing to want to be an artist, to practice an art. It is comparatively normal to practice an interpretative art. But to actually make things up is not something that, well, usually runs in families or is the recommendation of a career master.

When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

The image we produce is the self evident one of revelation..that can be understood by anyone who will look at it without the nostalgic glasses of history

The certainty of death is the spring of action and therefore of life, and in the implicit religious element in the work of art, life triumphs over death.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.

Lo que queremos hacer es crear una conexión entre el mundo que percibimos con nuestros sentidos y el mundo del arte, el de los muertos, el que no podemos ver.

What's poetry?" asked Kerouac. "Everything," Gregory replied.

For if one is to be a warrior, he has to pay attention to his trade and art. Discipline is the first rule of success.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

Dancing en pointe, or up on the toes, was not originally part of ballet. It came about in the early 1800s as a way of making the dancers appear lighter and more graceful. The

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Music ... is the frozen tapioca in the ice sheet of History.

When computers learn how to make jokes, artists will be in serious trouble.

He who withdraws himself from his fellow men lessens his service and impoverishes his life, no matter what work of art may come out of his solitude.

Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.

It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude: to play upon crowds is an art; and he alone can plunge, at the expense of humankind, into a debauch of vitality, to whom a fairy has bequeathed in his cradle the love of masks and disguises, the hate of home and the passion of travel.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!