Quotes about Art

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

Where the spiritual self steeps itself in its unconscious depths, there occur the phenomena of conscience, love, and art. Where it happens the other way around... we have to deal with a neurosis or a psychosis, depending on whether the case is psychogenic or somatogenic.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination.

there were masses of pictures she had not seen; however, Lily Briscoe reflected, perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.

I will write, she had said, what I enjoy writing.

They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.

What she said in To the Lighthouse of Lily Briscoe's art she might have said of her own: that the pen was 'the one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos . . .',73 and the godlike power she felt as a writer is perfectly embodied in a passage from that novel.