Art Quotes - Page 857

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

I draw like other people bite their nails.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

I do not seek. I find.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Surprise is key in all art.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.