Quotes about art
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- ?UnattributedOften credited to Steve Martin
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.
Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.33Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Music at Night and Other Essays (1931), “The Rest is Silence”Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo1802–1885William Shakespeare (1864), Part I, Book II, Chapter IV
T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Will Durant1885–1981Often credited to Aristotle
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), Act I, p. 22; Tanner
