Art Quotes

"Music is the only outlet that I have, really." "You can teach someone to make music, but you can't teach them to be an artist." "Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul." "I do music for the love of it, and I live and breathe it" "Great art shapes the world, and people recognise themselves in it, and find it changed for that moment." "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry " "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out " "The more perfect the work of art, the more it depends on chance in its existence " "Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic" "The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious" "To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now." "Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." "The foundation of empire is art and science" "I suppose fashion is a form of art, and what you wear reflects who you are "