Citas sobre Art

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”

“Art is the path to being spiritual.”

“Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.”

“You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.”

“Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.”

“I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.”

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.”

“'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.”

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.”

“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”

“Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.”

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”

“One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.”

“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.”

“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.”

“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”

“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”