Art Quotes

"All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author." "This haunting faith in insubstantial mystery remains at the heart of all art." "Life isn’t a support system for art; it’s the other way around" "Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian." "The essence of art is to capture fleeting beauty" "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." "Books and harlots have their own glow" "Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language" "I am an artist... I know that the world is a cruel place and one must live with a certain amount of brutality" "When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form." "The charm of all art lies in its illusion." "To create today is to create dangerously."