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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein

Stichwörter: science art cybernetics

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Freddie Mercury

Stichwörter: art women art-criticism modern-art

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stichwörter: individuality art different creativity non-conformist

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Dylan Thomas

Stichwörter: art poetry writing

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two.

Alan Shapiro

Stichwörter: truth art writing

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

Stichwörter: art photography

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Stichwörter: art

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Max Ernst

Stichwörter: art self-discovery self-awareness self-reflection

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Yann Martel

Stichwörter: politics art citizenship