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Art Quotes
"Life is art and art is life."
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"Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it."
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"For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you."
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"What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession."
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"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life."
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"Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold."
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"Metal rusts, music lasts forever."
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"Music Doesn't Need Interpreters and Translators."
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"This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
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"His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible."
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"When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."
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"If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery... It is mystery I love and pursue."
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"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."
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"For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write."
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"Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned by his individual perception. It will be saved, if at all, by the next and last step of disillusion; the realisation that complete consciousness and truth are themselves valueless, and that to acquire any genuine artistic titillation we must artificially invent limitations of consciousness and feign a pattern of life common to all mankind--most naturally the simple old pattern which ancient and groping tradition first gave us."
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"And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the crescendo at the end of a symphony and made her heartbeat quicken."
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"Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will."
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"My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why."
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"Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space."
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"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting."
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"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
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"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."
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"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
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"I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form."
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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
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