“Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”
Quotes about art
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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”
“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”
“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”
“Life is short, the art long.”
“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
“Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.”
“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!”
“It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.”
“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”
“Art lies by its own artifice.”
“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
“You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.”
“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”
“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”
“I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.”
“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”
“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”
“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”