William Butler Yeats Quotes

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.