Quotes about Art
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
- Isabel Allende
I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.
- Vincent Van Gogh
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
- Eugene Peterson
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.
- Elie Wiesel
Beauty is the gift of God.
- Aristotle
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
- Aristotle
In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.
- Aristotle
Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.
- Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
- Henry David Thoreau
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.
- Holly Hunter