Daniel Pennac Quotes

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

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.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

I don't see art as entertainment.

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

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.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.