Art Quotes

"Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living" "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "There are neither good nor bad subjects From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that there is no such thing as a subject inferior in itself or without possibilities" "Thank you for the tragedy I need it for my art" "I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art" "Make good art" "The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life." "You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the art goes out of it" "To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality." "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." "It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head." "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject." "Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity." "Music is real. It affects people; it's real." "Music is the shorthand of emotion." "I would love to make beauty and strangeness synonymous" "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."