Eugene Ionesco Quotes

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Life and art are inseparable.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

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.

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I believe in art.

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.