Art - Quotes
Painting is the only art that can be practised without either talent or hard work.
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, `I am going to produce a work of art`. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
We are not defined by our things. It`s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire - it`s not where we live - but how we live that defines us.
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It’s an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it - as it is forced in its other manifestations, in most arts and especially in the art of words - to contend and combine with thought.