Posted by: Cheope
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
This glorious tragedy we call modern art.
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This glorious tragedy we call modern art.
No only do I hate the cells of a prison, but even those of art, where few stay or just alone, I am for the clarity without shadows of the sun to the zenith point, that hides nothing of good and evil. If poetry bears this great light, then it is true poetry.
The art of viciousness is a lot worse than the absense of art itself.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
A true artist behave like a bird laid down on a fragile branch that he feels to break down under his weight but he sings anyway because he knows he has wings.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Art could never equal the richness of nature.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.