Citas sobre Art

“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”

“With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.”

“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.”

“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.”

“I am not strong on perfection.”

“You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.”

“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.”

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”

“Once you appreciate an art form, you're open to everything.”

“The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.”

“In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.”

“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”

“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”

“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”

“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.”