The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. 2.18K
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. 675
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. 643
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. 750
It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 2.55K
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. 682
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song ‘Radio Gaga.’ 666
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. 766
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. 1.34K
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. 742
Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project. 674
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. 681
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. 689
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen. 2.57K
