Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

But of works of art little can be said.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

Without art there is no hope.