Quotes about Art

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain to politics- and policy-addicted people that language is the basis of all ideas - if you can't say it, you can't think it), instead of a refuge for lawyers and apparatchiks.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.