Andrew Solomon Quotes

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

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.

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.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly, to a place beyond the realm of the temporal.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.