Allen Ginsberg Quotes

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Art is all in the details.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

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.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

Art and life are inseparable.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.