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Art Quotes
"A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time."
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"I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?"
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"You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows."
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"To paint is to love again, live again, see again. To get up at the crack of dawn in order to take a peek at the water colors one did the day before, or even a few hours before, is like stealing a look at the beloved while she sleeps. The thrill is even greater if one has first to draw back the curtains. How they glow in the cold light of early dawn! Is there any writer who rouses himself at daybreak in order to read the pages of his manuscript? Perish the thought!"
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"Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto."
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
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"I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York."
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"Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious."
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"Then marble soften'd into life grew warm."
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"I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility."
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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
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"It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve up the lukewarm remains of yesterdays dinner is easy, profitable and popular, (for a while). It is also wrong."
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"I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own."
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"Writing poetry is a state of free float."
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"The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising and it's magic and wonderful and strange."
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"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
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"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."
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"You can't, if you can't feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You'll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other's scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration's to your taste,But you'll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart's space."
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"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons."
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"The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers."
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"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
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"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
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"I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too."
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"HEARTWORK. Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. And every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART."
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"One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working."
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"A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes."
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"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
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"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."
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"Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick out points of fire in it, sparks of gold, and blood-red, and sea-green, like the first fierce stars that sprang out of divine darkness."
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"Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry."
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"There is a beastwithin my heart.She plays immaculately with the beauty in my soul."
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