With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Paul Cezanne
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
Charles Darwin
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Picasso
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.
Jean-Louis Barrault
to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric
Theodor Adorno
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.
Theodor Adorno
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Johann von Goethe
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
Art disease is caused by a hardening of the categories.
Adina Reinhardt
Art is a delayed echo.
George Santayana
Art is lies that tell the truth.
Picasso
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Modest Mussorgsky
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Wyndham Lewis
Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Beauty is that which excites the soul.
Gage Taylor
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls
and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional
resonance and a gift for expression.
Edward DeBono
We have art, in order not to die of the truth.
Nietzsche
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Picasso
Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your
life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and
your life is art.
Gage Taylor
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G.K. Chesterton
In his work, the artist should be like God in creation: invisible
& all-powerful. He should be felt everywhere and seen nowhere.
Gustave Flaubert
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
Art, after all, only begins at that point where we part with the
habitual.
Anatoly Vasilye
