Aesthetics

“In a world without beauty [...] the good also loses its power of attraction.”

“No escriba cosas hermosas acerca de mí ni aquellas que puedan ser apreciaciones subjetivas.”

“I always remember something that people say is a cliché. “Less is more.” I do it all the time.”

“The new world will not need little pictures. If it needs a mirror, it has the photograph and the cinema.”

“You can have a beautiful song in any genre.”

“In this film I used almost every avant-garde technique.”

“I was looking for a simple architecture, one that could immediately communicate that which in the past was known as ‘monumental,’ that is, in the sense of ‘Civic Dignity.’”

“Yo creo que la poesía se escapa de toda definición.”

“We have named PROUN a station on the path to the construction of the new form.”

“El arte es la vida.”

“I have always said that, if you are a true painter, everything you see is an excuse to paint.”

“김홍도는 특히 신선에 능했다.”

“O ofício do artista é simplesmente o do instrumento transmissor.”

“I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult if it wishes.”

“In my desperate struggle to free art from the ballast of the objective world I fled to the form of the Square.”

“nothing can be done in painting and sculpture without good drawing”

“I revere the memory of Pope, I respect and honour his abilities; but I do not think him at the head of his profession.”

“I have no art that makes you comfortable.”