“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
Pablo Picasso on Art
Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Imagination
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick on Movies
“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” Continue reading
Don Marquis on Procrastination
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Writing
“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Education
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” Continue reading
Winston Churchill on Art
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Continue reading
Danny Kaye on Life
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Music
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” Continue reading
Laurence J. Peter on Originality
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” Continue reading
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