Quotes about Art

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Culturally it means a return from the newspaper and the radio to the book, from feverish activity to unhurried leisure, from dispersion to concentration, from sensationalism to reflection, from virtuosity to art, from snobbery to modesty, from extravagance to moderation.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.