Art Quotes
Music embodies feeling without forcing it - as it is forced in its other manifestations, in most arts and especially in the art of words - to contend and combine with thought.
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
As a man, you know who is right and who is wrong; you have to judge. As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal.
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It’s an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
My father used to say that the carving was in the wood already. You just had to find out what the wood wanted to be, and then take your knife and remove everything that wasn`t that.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.