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Art Quotes


"Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works."


"A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect."


"According to the scientist, time is interminable and inexhaustible. The artist is more inclined to relate the passage of time as a subject involving the randomness of memory and humankind's ability to create vivid recollections. Astute artists depict collections of disjointed thought fragments in paintings and literature in order to stir the pot of human consciousness. Art rests upon the correspondence between the impact of external experience and the finiteness of human life. An artist attempts to articulate answers to the mystery of being by rendering a thoughtful interpretation of the world that we occupy and experience through our senses."


"The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."


"The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise."


"The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book."


"Music helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb,That is my abodeCellars downFar belowUnder the ground, ..."


"Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw."


"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."


"Only sick music makes money today."


"Writers express their thoughts through words, designers express their hearts through designs that speak words."


"Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one and of nothing at that moment, and from her smiling mouth poured forth notes, those notes that anyone can produce at the same intervals, and hold for the same length of time, yet a thousand times leave us cold, and the thousand and first time they set us thrilling and weeping."


"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."


"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."


"Humankind cannot exist without the makeshift paradigm of innovative art, which genuine amoeba expresses elusive and unsayable thoughts. Humankind's gallery of artistic impressions ranges from the starkness of personified cave drawings to the free ranging lexis of modern art. Collection of multihued stories of the ages portrays the vivid panoply of enigmatic vitas etched by humankind's self-imposed sense of urgency. Each passing generation's effusion of trope offerings seamlessly folds its shared renderings into the shimmering panorama of the cosmos, the sparkling nightscape that houses the intangible life force all communal souls."



"He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natural; the author should have a thorough knowledge of the human heart and make it speak properly; he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece; he should be a perfect master of his language, speak it with all its pruity and with the utmost harmony, and yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme. Whoever, added he, neglects any one of these rules, though he may write two or three tragedies with tolerable success, will never be reckoned in the number of good authors."


"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."


"Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas."



"Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me."


"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."


"Where does contagion end and art begin?"


"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon, My house is messy and I speak to the moon. I care less about the materials that I share with my world and more about the passion inside myself. Im an artist, what more can you expect? i am full of soul, love and all the rest."


"Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs."


"Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant."


"When you painted on earth " at least in your earlier days " it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too."



"Let your pain lead you to creativity."


"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."


"Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!"


"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."


"In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens."


"A photograph captures a magical moment for the future to ponder."


"It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law, I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden."


"Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love."



"Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end."


"To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare."
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