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Art Quotes
"Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives."
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"Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feelingin a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman."
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"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."
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"She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane."
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"Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow."
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"Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself."
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"Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God]."
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"But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry."
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"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
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"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."
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"Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public."
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"I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul."
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"That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues."
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"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
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"I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me."
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"To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
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"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
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"Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is essential to remember that characters have a music as well, a pitch and tempo, just as real people do. To make them believable, you must always be aware of what they would or would not say, where stresses would or would not fall."
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"Write about the emotions you fear the most."
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"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design."
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"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied."
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"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."
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"We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!"
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"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that."
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"He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers."
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"The art of interpretation is not to play what is written."
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"He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe."
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"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
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"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
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