14,373 Quotes About Art

What Rilke said: Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.

I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great detail of the Flyte family. Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, Charles, it has killed you.' [Anthony Blanche to Charles Ryder]

Art lights up the world.

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.

Find something, that when you are doing it you don’t feel you should be doing something else, and do that.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

There is beauty even in the ugliest mess, and it's the artist's job to find it.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.