Art Quotes - Page 18

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Don't be cool. Like everything.