Quotes on Art

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

In all I wish, how happy should I be,_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?_x000D_ _x000D_ So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;_x000D_ _x000D_ And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

O Life! thou art a galling load,_x000D_ _x000D_ Along a rough, a weary road,_x000D_ _x000D_ To wretches such as I!

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.