Statements about the art of words. Aphorisms, quotes about art and music
4Quotes and Aphorisms 27.06.2018
Dear readers, have you ever thought about what a person’s life would be like if there were no art in it? Nothing at all: no music, no painting, no books, no theater, no cinema, no dancing... It’s very difficult for me to imagine a world so gray and dull, where there is no possibility of spiritual self-expression, where there is no place for creativity. The role of art in the life of humanity is enormous. It gives answers to eternal questions, fills our world with colors, breathes life itself into us. This is exactly what is said so accurately and aptly in quotes and aphorisms about art.
The purpose of art is to ignite people's hearts
What is art? What is its purpose? Some believe that it is just a description of the reality around us, others that art too idealizes life, depicting it at all as it really is, others call this definition the transfer of feelings and emotions to other people through creativity. All these opinions are reflected in quotes and aphorisms about art.
“A work of art is a corner of the universe seen through the prism of a certain temperament.”
Emile Zola
“Too close resemblance to life is fatal to art.”
Ralph Emerson
“Art certainly strives for good, positively or negatively: whether it shows us the beauty of all the best that is in a person, or whether it laughs at the ugliness of all the worst in a person. If you expose all the rubbish that is in a person, and display it in such a way that each of the spectators will receive complete disgust for it, I ask: is this not already praise for everything good? I ask: isn’t this a praise of goodness?”
Nikolay Gogol
“All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on earth.”
Bertolt Brecht
“Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and relentlessly creates life.”
Boris Pasternak
“Art is an attempt to create another, more humane world next to the real world.”
“Art is a reality ordered by the artist, bearing the stamp of his temperament, which manifests itself in style.”
Andre Maurois
“Art is the expression of the deepest thoughts in the simplest way.”
Albert Einstein
“The task of art is not to copy nature, but to express it.”
Honore de Balzac
“Art is always a metaphor for reality.”
Yuri Bondarev
“Art is wisdom in the guise of beauty.”
“Art is the embodiment of beauty, a harmonious combination of parts. Art is not subject to reason, it is intuitive. Its comprehension comes before understanding by the mind. What is not beautiful is not art.”
Jorge Angel Livraga
“Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.”
Fedor Dostoevsky
Masterpieces are born in the throes of creativity
Creativity is an absolutely natural human state. It brings pleasure and pleasure, but we should not forget that it is also the greatest work. In quotes and aphorisms about art and creativity, great writers, artists, and musicians share their thoughts about this.
“Without pain, spiritual fruit is not born. Creativity is like childbirth; until the fetus is ripe, it doesn’t come out, and when it comes out, it’s with suffering and effort.”
Lev Tolstoy
“Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“Poets walk with their heels on the blade of a knife - and cut their barefoot souls to blood!”
Vladimir Vysotsky
“Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live even after your death.”
“Every climb is painful. Rebirth is painful. Without being exhausted, I won’t be able to hear the music. Suffering and effort help the music to sound.”
“Has the effort seemed fruitless to you? Blind man, take a few steps back... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But believe me, success and failure have created them equally... A beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It's like self-torture."
Isaac Babel
“Yes, writing is not a pleasant activity at all, but exhausting work and torment. How much life force goes into work. They read it and think that, by the way, that’s how I wrote it casually. They don’t know that you spend weeks and months thinking about the plot. Some phrase doesn’t lie comfortably, so you don’t sleep half the night.”
Ivan Bunin
“There is nothing more destructive for the moral greatness and purity of art than the ease with which the most indifferent listener can at any moment enjoy the most sacred and sublime. For because of this accessibility, many forget the pains of creation and consume art without awe.”
Stefan Zweig
“Readers do not even suspect that the author wrote the text, which takes them several minutes to read, with the blood of his heart. The feelings that seem so authentic to them, he fully experienced himself, wetting his pillow with bitter tears.”
Somerset Maugham
Vasily Zhukovsky
“The need to write torments me like a torment from which I must certainly free myself. But creativity is never a pleasure for me. Depicting on paper the images and ideas that torment me is always hard work.”
George Byron
Great art serves great purposes
Real art never tells us what we should be; it does not provide direct guidance to action and does not provide clear answers to pressing questions. But it touches the deepest strings of the soul, makes you think about the meaning of life and removes language and national barriers between people. After all, when listening to “Ave Maria,” does it really matter that you don’t know Italian? How correctly it is said about this in quotes and aphorisms about real art.
“Real art differs from fakes in that it can find a way to the hardest heart and is capable of lifting one into the heavens for a second, into a world of complete and unfettered freedom.”
Victor Pelevin
“The true art of all peoples and centuries is understandable to all mankind.”
Konstantin Stanislavsky
“Truly, art lies in nature; whoever knows how to discover it owns it.”
Albrecht Durer
“A sense of proportion in art is everything.”
Anatole France
“The struggle between the expressed content and the limitations of the means of expression is a necessary prerequisite for the emergence of true art.”
Werner Heisenberg
“Art without a message is like an empty envelope.”
Jorge Angel Livraga
“People who make art their business are mostly scammers.”
Pablo Picasso
“A true artist is devoid of vanity; he understands too well that art is inexhaustible.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Where the spirit does not guide the artist’s hand, there is no art.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Beauty cannot be known, it must be felt or created.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Art never addresses the crowd, the masses, it speaks to the individual, in the deep and hidden recesses of his soul.”
Maximilian Voloshin
“The highest purpose of art is to make the human heart beat, and since the heart is the center of life, art must constantly be in the closest connection with the entire moral and material life of mankind.”
Jean Marie Guyot
“Simplicity, truth and sincerity are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.”
Christophor Gluck
“You can lie in love, in politics, in medicine you can deceive people, but in art you cannot deceive.”
Anton Chekhov
“This is the sign of real art, that it is always modern, urgent, and useful.”
Fedor Dostoevsky
Great people about art
Art appeared even earlier than religion and science. And this is not surprising, because the need for beauty and harmony is inherent in humans from the very beginning. Already in ancient times, philosophers recognized its enormous influence on the formation of a person’s character, his personality, and spiritual qualities. This is so wisely stated in quotes and aphorisms of great people about art.
"Art never dies."
Gaius Petronius Arbiter
“The arts soften morals.”
Publius Ovid Naso
“Life is short, the path of art is long.”
Hippocrates
“The spirit is the master, the imagination is the instrument, the body is the obedient material. Each person has his own inner world, created by the power of imagination. Imagination is generated by the pure and strong desire of the heart. If this power is sufficient to illuminate every corner of this inner world, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.”
Paracelsus
“Life is learned from books and works of art, perhaps even more than from life itself.”
Theodore Dreiser
To create means to kill death.
Romain Rolland
“The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity in the creative soul is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite.”
“Art without the thought that a person without a soul is a corpse.”
Vissarion Belinsky
A work of art is fog sculpted into an image.
Gibran Khalil
“Art may go through times of decline, but it is eternal, like life itself.”
Fyodor Chaliapin
“The greatness of art lies in this eternal tense dichotomy between beauty and suffering, love for people and passion for creativity, the torment of loneliness and irritation from the crowd, rebellion and harmony. Art balances between two abysses - frivolity and propaganda. On the crest of the ridge along which a great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, the greatest risk. In this risk, however, and only in this lies the freedom of art.”
“Art has bouts of chastity. It cannot call a spade a spade.”
Albert Camus
“In all forms of art, you yourself need to experience the sensations that you want to evoke in others.”
Frederic de Stendhal
“Art is the most beautiful, the most strict, the most joyful and good symbol of man’s eternal, unreasonable desire for good, for truth and perfection.”
Thomas Mann
They create art...
Painting, along with music, is one of the oldest forms of art. When food and warmth were not enough for a person to be happy, the first music and the first drawings began to be born. The true power and greatness of creativity is spoken of in quotes from great artists and musicians about art.
“A painter who sketches senselessly, guided by practice and the judgment of the eye, is like a mirror that reflects all the objects opposed to it, without having knowledge of them.”
“Painter, be careful that the greed for earnings does not overcome the honor of art in you, for the earnings of honor are much more significant than the honor of wealth.”
“Painting argues and competes with nature.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting is jealous and does not tolerate rivals; She replaces my wife and causes quite enough household troubles. My works will be my children."
“A creation can outlive its creator: the creator will leave, defeated by nature,
However, the image he captured will warm hearts for centuries.
I live in thousands of souls in the hearts of all those who love
And that means I am not dust, and mortal decay will not touch me.”
Michelangelo Buonarrotti
Art is a terrible disease, but it is still impossible to live without it.
Salvador Dali
“Painting is an activity for the blind. The artist paints not what he sees, but what he feels.”
“Art is a lie that makes us aware of the truth.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Art washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.”
Pablo Picasso
“Art is not what you see, but what it makes others see.”
Edgar Degas
“I remember with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through the ordeal of denial and ridicule.”
Nicholas Roerich
“Without imagination there is no art, just as there is no science.”
Franz Liszt
“Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy.”
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“The purpose of music is to touch hearts.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
“To create beauty, you yourself must be pure in soul.”
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
“You have to feel strongly for others to feel.”
Nicolo Paganini
“In modern art there are two ways: denial and continuation of traditions. Creation is the path of continuation. It is important to realize that the continuation of tradition does not deprive the artist of freedom of expression.”
Ilya Gofman
“Since we started having art connoisseurs, art itself has gone to hell.”
Richard Wagner
About contemporary art
Concepts of beauty change over time, as has always been the case. Art cannot remain unchanged; it also changes, just like our lives. The rhythm of modern life has become much faster, it is literally eventful and it is not surprising that new genres and trends in creativity have appeared. They can be treated differently, because we all have the right to our own opinion. I bring to your attention a selection of quotes and aphorisms on the topic of contemporary art.
“Previously, they were afraid that the number of objects of art might include objects that corrupt people, and they banned it all. Now they are only afraid of losing some kind of pleasure given by art, and they patronize everyone. And I think that the latter error is much grosser than the first and that its consequences are much more harmful.”
Lev Tolstoy
“Modern painting is when you buy a painting to cover a hole in the wall, and you come to the conclusion that the hole looks better.”
Robert Orben
“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation.”
Thierry Guetta
“Music is an international language that expresses people's emotions and feelings. This is the most popular genre of contemporary art, where, it seems to me, there is enough space for everyone.”
Jon Lord
Sergey Vedenie
“The problem with cinema these days is that it becomes math. People can read a film mathematically; they know when it will happen and what will happen; after about 30 minutes they understand how it will end. Thus, the film became a mathematical solution. And it’s boring because art is not mathematics.”
Nicolas Winding Refn
“Art is not a mirror of reality, but an integral part of it.”
Alex Gromov
“Modern art is like women, you can’t enjoy it if you try to understand it.”
Creativity is a riddle that the artist asks himself.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 – 1966), Polish poet and aphorist
Don't be proud - create.
God created the world in a moment of humility.
Grigory Landau (1877 – 1941), philosopher, critic
“Think first, speak later” is the motto of criticism; “Speak first, think later” is the motto of creativity.
Edward Forster (1879 – 1970), English writer and critic
Few people create anything creative after the age of 35. The reason for this is that few people create anything creative before the age of 35.
Joel Hildebrand (1881 – 1983), American chemist
Creativity gives birth to a creator.
Maxim Zvonarev (b. 1956), journalist
Dogmatism is the integrity of the spirit; he who creates is always dogmatic, always boldly choosing and creating what he has chosen.
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 – 1948), philosopher
Mastery is when the “what” and “how” come together.
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 – 1940), director
Only those for whom it will never come wait for their time.
Grigory Landau
His creativity reached a double bottom.
Wiesław Brudzinski (b. 1920), Polish satirist
The state of creative impotence, alas, does not prevent one from creating.
Leszek Kumor, Polish aphorist
All creativity is essentially prayer. All creativity is directed into the ear of the Almighty.
Joseph Brodsky
Creativity is a common endeavor, done by the solitary.
Marina Tsvetaeva
Every man is less than his most beautiful creation.
Paul Valéry
An invention can be improved, a creation can only be imitated.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
I close my eyes to see better.
Paul Gauguin
The work is a flawed design.
Alfred Schnittke
An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
James Whistler
Only the Almighty had complete freedom of creativity, and even then only on the first day of creation.
Maxim Zvonarev
Doing easily what is difficult for others is talent; to do what is impossible for talent is genius.
A. Amiel
Great talents are alien to pettiness.
O. Balzac
If talent does not have sufficient strength within itself to align itself with its aspirations and enterprises, it produces only empty flowers when you expect fruit from it.
V. Belinsky
The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity in the creative soul is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite.
V. Belinsky
The level of honor of society depends on the level of respect (even reverence, worship) for talent; there is no greater blow to honor than the triumph of mediocrity.
E. Bogat
Man's abilities, so far as experience and analogy teach us, are limitless; there is no reason to suppose even any imaginary limit at which the human mind will stop.
G. Buckle
The creator of poverty does not know.
Far from worldly bounties,
I am not busy with the extraction of wealth, -
He takes them out of their souls.
L. Boleslavsky
The great creations of the human spirit are like mountain peaks: their snow-white peaks rise higher and higher before us, the further we move from them.
S. Bulgakov
Where there is life and freedom, there is room for new creativity.
S. Bulgakov
It seems to us that people have a poor understanding of both their capabilities and their strengths: they exaggerate the former, and underestimate the latter.
F. Bacon
Ingenuity lies precisely in the ability to compare things and recognize their connections.
L. Vauvenargues
There are no more reliable patrons than our own abilities.
L. Vauvenargues
Some are colorless in the first row, but shine in the second.
Voltaire
It’s wonderful to invent yourself, but to know and appreciate what others have found is less than to create.
I. Goethe
He who is born with talent and for talent finds his best existence in it.
I. Goethe
No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.
I. Goethe
The ability is assumed in advance, but it must become a skill.
I. Goethe
Traces will disappear generations,
But talent lives, genius immortal.
M. Glinka
There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
N. Gogol
You won’t learn the techniques of creativity. Every creator has his own techniques. One can only imitate higher techniques, but this leads nowhere, and one cannot penetrate into the work of the creative spirit.
I. Goncharov
If you don’t know how to hold an ax in your hand, you won’t be able to cut wood, and if you don’t know the language well, you won’t be able to write it beautifully and understandably to everyone.
M. Gorky
Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength...
M. Gorky
Great talents are products of painful passion...
J. D'Alembert
Man is glorified neither by gold nor by silver. The man is famous for his talent and skill.
A. Jami
Compared to what we should be, we are still in a half-asleep state. We use only a small part of our physical and mental resources. In general, we can say that a person lives in this way far beyond his capabilities. He has abilities of various kinds that he does not usually use.
W. James
Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will.
K. Dossey
Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.
F. Dostoevsky
Creativity... is an integral, organic property of human nature... It is a necessary accessory of the human spirit. It is as legitimate in a person, perhaps, as two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and forms a whole with him.
F. Dostoevsky
What is talent? Talent is... the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly.
F. Dostoevsky
There are no incapable people. There are those who are unable to determine their abilities and develop them.
And since these problems are solved in childhood, it is primarily the parents’ fault. Without their help, the child cannot solve these problems.
V. Zubkov
True talents do not go unrewarded: there is an audience, there is posterity. The main thing is not to receive, but to deserve.
N. Karamzin
The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people.
N. Karamzin
Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice. All sorts of petty and selfish feelings interfere with creativity. And creativity is selfless service to the art of the people.
V. Kachalov
The highest task of talent is to make people understand the meaning and value of life through their work.
V. Klyuchevsky
Talent is a spark of God with which a person usually burns himself, illuminating the path for others with his own fire.
V. Klyuchevsky
Who's stopping you from inventing waterproof gunpowder?
Kozma Prutkov
Talents measure the success of civilization, and they also represent milestones of history, serving as telegrams from ancestors and contemporaries to posterity.
Kozma Prutkov
Only in creativity there is joy - everything else is dust and vanity.
A. Koni
True talents do not get angry because of criticism:/It cannot damage their beauty,/Only fake flowers are afraid of rain.
I. Krylov
The relationship between intelligence and talent is the same as between the whole and the part.
J. Labruyère
Human talents are like trees: each has special properties and bears its own inherent fruits.
F. La Rochefoucauld
I maintain that a bad head, having auxiliary advantages and exercising them, can outperform the best, just as a child can draw a line on a ruler better than the greatest master by hand.
G. Leibniz
Talent must be encouraged.
V. Lenin
He who does not use his talents to teach and educate others is either a bad or limited person.
G. Lichtenberg
There is something rarer, more extraordinary, than giftedness. It is the ability to recognize the giftedness of others.
G. Lichtenberg
We are born with abilities and powers that allow us to do almost everything - in any case, these abilities are such that they can take us further than we can easily imagine; but only the exercise of these forces can impart to us skill and art in anything and lead us to perfection.
D. Locke
Everyone feels what their strength is, which they can count on.
Lucretius
What else is wealth if not the absolute manifestation of a person’s creative talents...
K. Marx
To strictly follow your inclinations and to be at their mercy means to be a slave to yourself.
M. Montaigne
"Impossible" is a word that can only be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon I
Ability means little without opportunity.
Napoleon
He who creates loves himself in it; therefore, he has to hate himself in the deepest way - in this hatred he knows no measure.
F. Nietzsche
Vocation is the backbone of life.
F. Nietzsche
Another person's talent seems less than it is, because he always sets too big tasks for himself.
F. Nietzsche
Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life!
F. Nietzsche
Creative work is wonderful, extraordinarily hard and amazingly joyful work.
N. Ostrovsky
The impulse to create can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food.
K. Paustovsky
The creative process in its very course acquires new qualities, becomes more complex and richer.
K. Paustovsky
The highest talent will easily disgrace himself if someone who is too self-confident wants to measure his strength the first time in a matter that requires enormous preliminary information, maturity of mind in judgment and experience in life.
N. Pirogov
Only strong talent can embody an era.
D. Pisarev
Everything that causes the transition from non-existence to being is creativity.
Plato
It has long been noted that talents appear everywhere and always, wherever and whenever social conditions exist that are favorable for their development.
G. Plekhanov
What remains for a long time is born from an integral personality in pain and joy, in exactly the same way as life is born in nature. To get to this synthesis of the birth of personality in oneself, just as scientists get to protein synthesis, is a seductive and dangerous path of creativity.
G. Plekhanov
Essentially, in order to deeply appreciate the creation of what we call genius, one must oneself possess the genius necessary for such an accomplishment.
E. Po
The first stage of all creativity is self-forgetfulness.
M. Prishvin
Creativity is a passion that dies in form.
M. Prishvin
All of us, alas, are not equally suited for all things.
Propertius
When the sea is calm, anyone can be a helmsman.
Publilius Syrus
Always remain unsatisfied: this is the essence of creativity.
J. Renard
There is only one happiness: to create. Only the one who creates is alive. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are creative joys...
R. Rolland
To create is nothing other than to believe.
R. Rolland
To create - whether new flesh or spiritual values - means to break free from the captivity of your body, it means to rush into the hurricane of life, it means to be the One who Is. To create means to kill death.
R. Rolland
Creativity is the beginning that gives a person immortality.
R. Rolland
What a pity that the offspring is unreasonable
Born from a sage:
Son does not inherit
Father's talent and knowledge.
Rudaki
What is the main sign of real talent? This is constant development, constant self-improvement.
V. Stasov
A vocation can only be recognized and proven by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace or well-being in order to devote himself to his vocation.
L. Tolstoy
Where labor turns into creativity, the fear of death naturally, even physiologically, disappears.
L. Tolstoy
Don't you know if you have talent yet? Give it time to mature; and even if it doesn’t exist, does a person really need poetic talent in order to live and act?
I. Turgenev
Talent, like character, manifests itself in struggle. Some people adapt to circumstances, others defend such necessary human principles as honor, integrity, and loyalty. The opportunists disappear. The principled ones, having overcome all difficulties, remain.
V. Uspensky
Where there is no scope for the manifestation of abilities, there is no ability.
L. Feuerbach
Over the course of life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
3. Freud
The creative personality obeys a different, higher law than the law of simple duty. For someone who is called to perform a great deed, to carry out a discovery or feat that moves all of humanity forward, for that person his true homeland is no longer his fatherland, but his deed. He feels ultimately responsible only to one authority - to the task that he is destined to solve, and he would rather allow himself to despise state and temporary interests than the internal obligation that his special fate, his special talent have placed on him.
S. Zweig
Let everyone know their abilities and let them strictly judge themselves, their virtues and vices.
Cicero
Great talent requires great hard work.
P. Tchaikovsky
The truth is the power of talent; wrong direction destroys the strongest talent.
N. Chernyshevsky
Talent... gives everyone double the price.
N. Chernyshevsky
Any person of average abilities can, through proper work on himself, diligence, attention and perseverance, become anything he wants, except a good poet.
F. Chesterfield
Brevity is the soul of wit.
A. Chekhov
Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for that all other pleasures no longer exist.
A. Chekhov
I generally don’t believe in the power of talent alone, without hard work. Without it, the greatest talent will fizzle out, just as a spring will die out in the desert, not making its way through the sands...
F. Chaliapin
Insomnia is the cradle of creativity.
I. Shevelev
In creativity, maximum output does not deplete, but tones.
I. Shevelev
Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.
W. Shakespeare
In fact, the creator usually experiences only grief.
L. Shestov
The creators of great ideas are very dismissive of their creations and care little about their fate in the world.
L. Shestov
Ordinary people are only concerned with passing the time; and whoever has any talent - to take advantage of the time.
A. Schopenhauer
Any worker, be it a writer, artist, composer, scientist, scientist or cultural worker, cannot create without being separated from social work and from life. Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience - there is no creativity.
D. Shostakovich
Discoveries are made when everyone thinks that this cannot be, but one person does not know it.
A. Einstein
Even ancient philosophers were fascinated by the human ability to create. Some considered her a gift from God. To others, this feature seemed like a curse. There were only indifferent people.
What do creative individuals themselves think about this? Statements and quotes about art, with the help of which great people once expressed their opinions, will help you understand.
Creativity and the Universe
The modern pace of life leaves a person very little time to enjoy the beauty of the world. Sometimes only real creators manage to distract people from the bustle of everyday life, draw their attention to true values and make them think about the eternal. Many great quotes about art are devoted to this topic.
On the role of painting
True artists always have something to say to the world. From the depths of their consciousness, they bring to light original thoughts that amaze, delight and inspire those around them, once again reminding us of the creative potential inherent in every person.
Introducing some quotes from artists about art that may pique the reader's interest.
Quotes from great artists about art and themselves
On the role of music
Writers about art
No less remarkable is the art of writing. Aphorisms, quotes and statements of famous authors are clear confirmation of this.
Many outstanding minds of mankind have spoken about the most important role of art in the life of society. The works of writers, philosophers, scientists and public figures are devoted to this issue. Various opinions are expressed, which, in essence, come down to a common conclusion: without the ability to see beauty and create, a person will lose his essence. We bring to the reader's attention quotes about art, as well as sayings of great people on this subject:
- Art is the daughter of freedom. (Friedrich Schiller).
- My imagination cannot create a picture of more complete happiness than continuing to live for the sake of creativity . (Clara Schumann).
- Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. (Victor Pinchuk).
- The skill of a writer lies in revealing what the reader believes. (Gustave Flaubert).
- Creativity allows itself to make mistakes. Art knows which ones to keep. (Scott Adams).
- Culture is the only thing that remains when everything else is forgotten . (Edouard Herriot).
- Creativity is the only way to escape without leaving home. (Twyla Tharp).
- Culture is art raised to a variety of beliefs. (Thomas Wolfe).
- A beautiful body perishes, but it is eternal if recreated on the artist’s canvas. (Leonardo da Vinci).
- For me, creativity is an opportunity to give people a way to look at the world around them differently. (Maya Lin).
- Art is the engine of culture . (Nicholas Roerich).
Creativity and progress
The following quotes about art and its inextricable connection with science also show the significant role of the creative component in the development of human society.
Architecture is music frozen in stone
Creativity surrounds people everywhere. Architecture is one of its most ancient directions. And even if there are few quotes about art embodied in stone, they are all the more interesting.
- Modern architecture is the art of filling space. (Philip Johnson).
- Architecture is a visual art where the buildings speak for themselves . (Julia Morgan).
- Architecture - Residential Sculpture . (Constantin Brancusi).
- Architecture is the pursuit of truth. (Louis Kahn).
- Life is architecture, and architecture is the mirror of life. (Yu Ming Pei).
- Any work of architecture that does not express tranquility is a mistake. (Luis Barragan).
Only he is gifted with a happy fate,
He is joyful whose heart is just.
Albukasim Ferdowsi
What is a poet? A person who writes poetry? Of course not. He is called a poet not because he writes in poetry; but he writes in verse, that is, he brings words and sounds into harmony, because he is the son of harmony, a poet.
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
Truly, art lies in nature; whoever knows how to discover it owns it.
Albrecht Durer
A wonderful imagination is as necessary for the historian as for the poet, for without imagination nothing can be seen, nothing can be understood.
Anatole France
A sense of proportion in art is everything.
Anatole France
Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live even after your death.
Every climb is painful. Rebirth is painful. Without being exhausted, I won’t be able to hear the music. Suffering and effort help the music to sound.
Did the effort seem fruitless to you? Blind man, take a few steps back... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But believe me, success and failure have created them equally... A beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance.
Only a bee recognizes the hidden sweetness in a flower,
Only an artist senses the trace of beauty in everything.
Afanasy Afanasievich Fet
When I create music, I don't think about it in isolation from the idea.
Benjamin Britten
An unmistakable sign that something is not art or someone does not understand art is boredom... Art should be a means of education, but its goal is pleasure.
Bertolt Brecht
All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on earth.
Bertolt Brecht
Art requires knowledge.
Bertolt Brecht
When humanity is destroyed, there is no more art. Putting beautiful words together is not an art.
Bertolt Brecht
The round dance has started - dance it to the end.
Bulgarian proverb
Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It relentlessly ponders death and relentlessly creates life.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, and creativity.
Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky
The third ability of the soul after mind and will is creativity.
Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky
Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice.
Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov
Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.
Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev
Music is the universal language of the world.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When I listen to music, I hear very clear answers to all my questions, and everything in me calms down and becomes clearer. Or, more precisely, I feel that these are not questions at all.
Gustav Mahler
In order to discover the laws belonging to the world of primary images, the artist must awaken to life as a person: almost all of his noble feelings, a considerable share of intelligence, intuition, and the desire to create must be developed in him.
Delia Steinberg Guzman
The laws of Art originate not in the material, but in the ideal world where Beauty lives; matter can only indicate the boundaries within which artistic inspiration spreads.
Delia Steinberg Guzman
God created music as a common language for people.
When love and craftsmanship come together, you can expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience - there is no creativity.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich
To always remain unsatisfied is the essence of creativity.
Jules Renard
Only a chosen one can create art,
Everyone loves art.
Julien Grün
Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The layman imagines that in order to be creative one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep misconception.
Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky
High art not only reflects life, it, by participating in life, changes it.
Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg
In any work of art, great or small, everything down to the last detail depends on the design.
Art is a mediator of what cannot be expressed.
The impulse for creativity can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Not a single moment of creativity, even the initial moment of creativity, can occur without the work of imagination.
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky
Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Study the science of art and the art of science.
Leonardo da Vinci
The art of living has always consisted mainly of the ability to look forward.
Leonid Maksimovich Leonov
Let your life be equal to you, let nothing contradict one another, and this is impossible without knowledge and without art, which allows you to know the divine and human.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music should strike fire from people's hearts.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Every true piece of music has an idea.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Others, who love their art, devote themselves entirely to their work, forgetting to wash themselves and eat. You value your nature less than an engraver values engraving, a dancer values dancing, a money lover values money, an ambitious person values fame. Does generally useful activity really seem to you less significant and less worthy of effort?
Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more reminiscent of the art of fighting than of dancing. It requires preparedness and resilience in the face of the unexpected and unexpected.
Marcus Aurelius
The artist's most important tool, which is formed through constant training, is faith in his ability to create miracles when necessary.
Mark Rothko
Art is jealous; it demands that a person devote himself entirely to it.
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In the hands of talent, everything can serve as a tool for beauty.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
I remember with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through the ordeal of denial and ridicule.
Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich
A true artist must sacrifice herself to her art. Like a nun, she has no right to lead the life desired by most women.
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova
The spirit is the master, the imagination is the tool, the body is the obedient material. Each person has his own inner world, created by the power of imagination. Imagination is generated by the pure and strong desire of the heart. If this power is sufficient to illuminate every corner of this inner world, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.
Paracelsus
Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Everyone is capable of creating well only what the muse inspires him to do.
Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination...
The path to the abode of the muses, alas, is not wide and not straight.
: In essence, art in life is much more important than life in art.
