Quotes on “art”

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.