Quotes about art
art pain joy
Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain. Edvard Munch
art war hippie
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
art clouds blood
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
art believe men
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart
art helping-others helping
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.
art eye men
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
art works-of-art humans
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
art joy sorrow
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
art morning eye
At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.
art reflection self
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings
art believe men
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
art blood literature
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
art reading men
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
art eye soul
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
art programming complexity
The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity. Edsger Dijkstra
art stories cafes
I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling. Eduardo Galeano
art laughter laughing
Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.
art great-art art-is
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. Edward Abbey
art pride taste
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
art perfect produce
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
art inspire nature-and-life
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
artist technique truth-is
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.
art horse museums
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.
art savages madness
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
art
Life imitates art -- but badly.
art honesty clean
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
artist decline trajectory
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
artist veils seven
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
art political world
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
art soul body
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
art enemy looks
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
art philosophy crude
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
art numbers littles
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.