Art Quotes — page 44

Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending; Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the concert o'er again.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Merz stands for the freedom of all fetters.. .Merz also means tolerance towards any artistically motivated limitation. Every artist must be allowed to mould a picture out of nothing but blotting paper, for example, provided he is capable …

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of …

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?

Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.

Works of genius are the first things in this world.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only — having no desire to teach.

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.

The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom——is to die.

'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd …

"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

..though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting and love to seem to take things wrong I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

As nations advance towards civilisation it becomes less needful for them to contend with one another for land and food to support their increasing numbers, because their increased control of the industrial arts enables them to gain what …

It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in …

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

Thou art like silence unperplexed, A secret and a mystery Between one footfall and the next.

…we might now formulate a maxim to the effect that art -- that is, in our case, pictorial representation --- employs the image of concrete things to create abstract ideas.

The salvation of reality is its obstinate, irreducible, matter-of-fact entities, which are limited to be no other than themselves. Neither science, nor art, nor creative action can tear itself away from obstinate, irreducible, limited …

Sweet Love, that art so bitter.