Marcel Proust Quotes

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

It present to allow me to ask myself questions about what I'm doing. I think that's what visual art does - it either reminds you of something or allows you to question something. I don't know why Robert Motherwell; I love so many different artists.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.