Collection of phrases and quotes about art.
The idea that does not try to become a word is a bad idea, and the word that does not try to become an action is a bad word.
The criticisms will not be pleasant, but they are necessary.
The happy and blissful life is the sole object of all philosophy.
To notice life while living it, to catch a glimpse of its relentless greatness, to enjoy the time and the people who inhabit it, to celebrate life and the dream of living, that is its art.
Human beauty is nature's luxury.
Art is a pause, an encounter of sensibilities.
Poetry has no time, the one who reads it rescues it, makes it present, and then returns it to its eternity.
If there were no music in the afterlife, it would have to be imported.
There is the sumptuous stage of life for those who know how to look a little.
The artist is always a pursuer of beauty.
There is no work that does not turn against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.
And for a moment I have felt that perhaps an idea is more important than the mere fact of being alive, because an idea lives long after one has disappeared.