Quotes on Art

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.