Artistic Loss Quotes

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

If a poet would influence politics he must join a party, and then he is lost as a poet: goodbye to his free spirit and his open mind.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

I miss my singing career very much.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.

Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.