Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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Reinforced concrete is an honest and useful muse, and perhaps in the hands of a brilliant architect it would be admirable; but when it gets out of control and feels bold, like a cook turned cabaret singer, it commits such horrors that it should be restrained and taken to jail.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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It seemed so beautiful to me that I couldn't remember how it looked afterwards.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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Literature cannot reflect all the darkness of life. The main reason is that literature chooses, and life does not.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The music is an art that is beyond the bounds of reason; the same can be said about whether it is beneath or above it.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The world, for us, is representation, as Schopenhauer said; it is not an absolute reality, but a reflection of essential ideas.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Eternity is one of the rare virtues of literature.

William Blake

William Blake

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I will not reason, nor compare; my task is to create.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

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In a flock of white doves, a black crow adds even more beauty than the candor of a swan.

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

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My criticisms are light and without venom, because there is none in my heart, and I detest it in literature.

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

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I usually read the preface in all the books, because sometimes it tends to be the best part of the work.

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard

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The art of painting consists of lightening and darkening the tones without decorating them.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Beauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.