Art Quotes
Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.
Nature is a revelation of God;
Art a revelation of man.
The highest problem in every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what’s wrong with it.
Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
The opera ain’t over‘til the fat lady sings.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts traveled to heaven is no artist.
There’s not enough sax and violins on television.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.
When asked why he thought it impossible to name his one hundred favorite books:
Because I have only written five.