Art Quotes

"I have nothing to say and I am saying it."

"To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail."

"All art is failure, the beauty lies in the struggle."

"One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off."

"The task of the artist is not to solve a problem but to state a problem correctly."

"The most moving poetry is often about the most ordinary things."

"The stage is where truth and fiction become indistinguishable."

"Art should be used to awaken the souls of people."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

"The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation."

"Among all the arts, poetry teaches us to think in the language of the soul."

"Art is the secret autobiography of the world."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"There is something in the noble air of Tragedy which purifies the soul."

"I have nothing to say and I am saying it."

"There is nothing more terrible than a bad description."

"Art is not about making things beautiful, it's about making things true."

"We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."

"Art is the attempt to make meaning where there is none."

"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"Art should surprise and challenge the comfortable."

"The artist must descend into the depths of human experience."

"A work of art is a mirror held up to society."

"The function of art is washing away dust of daily life off our souls."

"Art is not a pleasure, but a condition of life."

"The role of art is to make the invisible visible."

"Art is the effort of man to express not his idea of what nature is, but his idea of what it should be."