Art Quotes

When asked why he thought it impossible to name his one hundred favorite books: Because I have only written five.

Without music, life would be a serious mistake.

Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

The only good thing to come out of religion was the music.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

A recording artist is someone that makes music but who cannot be called a musician.

The one good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance . . . and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Precision is not reality.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

Art is what you can get away with.

Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training.