Quotes on Art

All art is a kind of confession.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?