Pauline Kael Quotes

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

Art is really a battle.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

One does not consider style, because style is.

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

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.