Quotes about Art

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot in a tin tub - Renoir, or was it Degas? both, both women plump. Diana and her maidens, a moment before they catch the hunter's prying eyes. Never any paintings called Man Washing Socks in Sink.)

It was a wicked game. "Homer," says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. "The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart's music. Shakespeare, complete works. The Brontës. Tolstoy. The Pearl Mosque. Chartres Cathedral. Bach. Rembrandt. Verdi. Joyce. Penicillin. Keats. Turner. Heart transplants. Polio vaccine. Berlioz. Baudelaire. Bartok. Yeats. Woolf.

Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.

Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.