I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
Peter GreenawayA genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning. If it do not even wake an interest, throw it aside. A meaning may be there, but it is not for you. If, again, you do not know a horse when you see it, the name written under it will not serve you much. At all events, the business of the painter is not to teach zoology.
George MacDonaldTags: art literary-interpretation
Creativity is an act of defiance.
Twyla TharpTags: art creativity
Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself.
from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Tags: art tolstoy anna karenina leo goethe
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.
Guillaume ApollinaireCreativity takes courage.
Henri MatisseTags: art creativity
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
John KeatsGod is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo PicassoFor art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: art creativity drinking
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Barbara KingsolverTags: art
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