Art Quotes
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"Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."
"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
"I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave."
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
"The human body is the best work of art."
"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know."
"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity."
"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
"The beautiful is always bizarre."
"Music is an outburst of the soul."
"I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality."
"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"
"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss."
"Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
"Let us embrace each other like we have the arms of two chairs. Let us dance like our legs are those of a table. We should do dinner sometime."
"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please."
"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."
"Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art."
"Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start."
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