Quotes about Art

Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.

But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening, and the paintings and the cakes and the eau-devie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married—time would fix that—and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know is in the horns because you have the canvas-covered bodies of the horses on the sand to prove it. He gives the feeling of his immortality, and, as you watch it, it becomes yours. Then when it belongs to both of you, he proves it with the sword.

I've never been one for color theory or color wheels or undertone rules or anything like that. I don't know if my red lipstick 'should' be more blue or more orange.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.