Art Quotes

The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy.

Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.

As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as alive as the kangaroo that'd just hopped away.

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.

there is no problems, only solutions".

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

Armus: 'No need for interogation if you'd tell me this earlier.'Samarga: 'You wouldn't buy it if I gave it away without squeal.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

Art is long, life is short.

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The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.

I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it

A pianist is a painter of music

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered…

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

If you judge art be its cover, you efface the very essence of it

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.

Look within - there is no end!

Seeing beautiful art is like feeling kisses from angels all over your face.

I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Facts produce structures, objects are lyrical realities.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.

Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.