“...there are times when silence is a poem.”
More from John Fowles on Art
“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”
“But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.”
“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”
John Keats
10 quotes“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
W.H. Auden
7 quotes“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of...”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”