Ann Demeulemeester Quotes

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

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Life and art are inseparable.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

You need the art in order to love the life.

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

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

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

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

Art is a sense of magic.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.