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Art Quotes
"Sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation."
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"Modern art has to be what is called 'intense.' it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong."
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"Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!"
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"A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat, a pulse. opens its eyes to the world."
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"Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent."
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"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge."
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"An art is a poetry but only a few can read it."
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"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?"
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"That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude."
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"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."
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"The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son."
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"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."
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"Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life."
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"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day."
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"The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed."
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"Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist."
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"Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out."
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"A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination."
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"I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life -- constantly reminding and re-reminding my soul and the cosmos that I'm very serious about the business of creative living, and that I will never stop creating, no matter what the outcome, and no matter how deep my anxieties and insecurities may be."
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"Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation."
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"Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out."
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"Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body."
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"The artistic creation of the poet, painter, photographer, and writer is a reflection of the artist's inner world. The agenda of consciousness that spurs all forms of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but to portray its inward significance to the creator. A great poem, painting, photograph, and written composition fully express what the creator feels, in the deepest sense, about the distinctively depicted image that captured their imagination."
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"A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy."
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"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."
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"The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich."
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"If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery."
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"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."
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"An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear."
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"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."
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"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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"We are artists. When we can't find the beauty, we create it."
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