Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke artexistencelend Change image and share on social
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. Eugene Ionesco artconstituteculture share on social
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Eli Broad artartworkbuy share on social
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. Erik Satie animalartinvent Change image and share on social
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. E. M. Forster artassumeexist Change image and share on social
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. Edmund White artbiographycontinual share on social
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. Eugenio Montale artgrasppaper Change image and share on social
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. Eugenio Montale artconsciousnessconsumption share on social
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse. Edgar Wright actualapocalypseart share on social
My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil. Emma Ishta artbackgroundblack Change image and share on social
