Art quotes

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

All I owe the world is my art.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.