Quotes about Art

Poetry was alive and dangerous.

For Thérèse, poetry was not "art for amusement," because she did not write for her own satisfaction but out of duty, or at least with a concern to serve, to help, and to encourage.6

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

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.