Broken Art Quotes

#1. People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#2. After life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

John Geddes

#3. Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.

Jane Heap

#4. In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#5. And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

Jenim Dibie

#7. Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Elbert Hubbard

#8. We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

Sebastiao Salgado

#9. Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

William, Saroyan

#10. Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

Sun Tzu

#11. It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.

Jenny Lawson

#12. I've broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That's how it works. You don't buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor's music?

Hugh Jackman

#13. Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

Ben Mink

#14. And how that lady Suz was all wrong: art is not all about chaos, about taking things apart. True art, Emma will tell them, is about finding a way to make what's broken whole.

Jennifer McMahon

#15. Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Walter Scott

#16. Olivia was so beautifully broken. The hairline cracks in her personality were more pieces of art than flaws. I loved flawed art.

Tarryn Fisher

#17. Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.

John Dee

#18. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

Shane Koyczan

#19. Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

Hank Williams Jr.

#20. The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.

Theresa Sjoquist

#21. A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.

Mary Oliver

#22. All we are doing are self-portraits. As simple that. We accumulate knowledge and wisdom and power, and we get our hearts broken, and we write. We write for others to absorb what took us so long to understand.

Cristian Mihai

#23. Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

Delano Johnson

#24. People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.

Alexander Pyles

#25. The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

Harold Rosenberg

#26. Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.

William Gurnall

#27. And honesty is the hardest part
yeah honesty is the highest art
and honestly i myself just started
and eureka i'm less broken-hearted

Ani DiFranco

#28. As she slid into her fifties, with grace I might add, she learned the art of hatred, pulling on the pain from a broken heart. She kept this pain alive, growing on the outskirts of her soul, like a copse of trees that constantly needed pruning.

Lawren Leo

#29. The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Heinrich Heine

#30. Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

P. J. O'Rourke

#31. To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Giorgio De Chirico

#32. They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Bob Dylan

#33. Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#34. Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#35. Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Theodor W. Adorno

#36. How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

Jack Johnson

#38. This kind of art school is for me the least important. A spiritual structure is needed. If a person is an artist he can use the most primitive of instruments:- a broken knife is enough. Otherwise it remains a craft school.

Joseph Bueys

#39. Take your broken heart, make it into art.

Carrie Fisher

#40. Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Vincent Van Gogh