Juan Gabriel Quotes

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

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

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time I see any work of art really beautifully done, like Michelangelo's 'The David' or that movie 'Lost in Translation' - it inspires me to try and find my own version of that.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.