“The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.” ArtTurnsMusicianArt IsMetaphorVisualsFunny ThingsVisual Art Author:Dar Williams
“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.” WorldArtTwoTurnsIndividualVisionEnvironmentArt IsMirrorsInstrumentsPrisonActiveFormerLatterCopiesAestheticPassivePsychicsAestheticsObjectivityRedeemedPrismsSpatialPersonal Vision Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.” IfsWorldTryingArtBeautifulTurnsSpacePagesArt IsChaos Author:Jonathan Lethem
“In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"” ThinkingMindChildrenArtFilmSongTurnsLiteratureViewsGoneWonderfulCrazySpeechArt IsMadnessClimatePatientScriptsCurrentsCarefulProofSmokeFearfulLocksMadmenLamentDesolatePlaces You Go Author:Carol O'Connell
“Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.” KnowsArtMadeTurnsArt IsCornersAround The Corner Book:Milton Avery drawings Source: Milton Avery drawings
“We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.” ArtDifferentTurnsArt IsWeaknessUrgesManifestScenarios Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.” WorldWayArtTurnsAbilityLevelsArt IsFundamentalsOblivion Author:Yasumasa Morimura
“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.” ArtTurnsGamesBeautyArt IsPhilosopherInventionAestheticAesthetics Book:On Poets and Others Source: On Poets and Others
“This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and — like it or not — peculiar set of experiences to appreciate. Amazing thing to say, the consolation of horror in art is that it actually intensifies our panic, loudens it on the sounding-board of our horror-hollowed hearts, turns terror up full blast, all the while reaching for that perfect and deafening amplitude at which we may dance to the bizarre music of our own misery.” HeartMayArtMadeFeelingsTurnsPerfectShareHorrorArt IsAppreciateUltimateMiseryTerrorInsightBoardsReachingWorks Of ArtPeculiarPanicSensitivityBizarreConsolationBlastAmazing Things Author:Thomas Ligotti