Jack Vance Quotes

It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying. It's like teaching a child to walk. It may start by walking, but eventually it will fall. And I have kids, but I know that that will enable them to stand up again and understand why they fell, and how they can avoid that. They will walk better and faster, and stronger. Filmmaking is the same.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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

The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.