Citas sobre Art

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”

“I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.”

“Painting and writing are solitary arts.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”

“You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.”

“The job of art is to chase ugliness away.”

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

“One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.”

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

“Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.”

“Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.”

“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.”

“Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.”

“The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.”

“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?”

“I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they've been broken. They're like hooves or talons. They're disgusting. I'd never get them out.”

“Art is science made clear.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”