Quotes about Art

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.