Marcel Proust Quotes About Art

• Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

  Marcel Proust

  Depression, Art, Thinking

  Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921). George Seldes, The Great Thoughts, quotes Ramon Guthrie: "This passage was meant to show what fools people who are capable of uttering such idiocies are... . It is slap-stick irony that Proust puts into the mouth of a fool (Boulbon) in order to show what a fool he was."

• Gracias al arte, en lugar de ver un solo mundo, el nuestro, vemos que ese mundo se multiplica y tenemos a nuestra disposición tantos mundos como artistas originales, mundos más diferentes unos de otros que los que giran en el espacio infinito, mundos que, siglos después de la extinción del fuego del que emanó su luz por primera vez, llámese Rembrandt o Vermeer, nos envían todavía cada uno su especial resplandor.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Space, Fire

  Marcel Proust, Joanna Kilmartin (1992). “In Search of Lost Time: Time regained. VI”, Random House (UK)

• Sólo a través del arte podemos salir de nosotros mismos, en lugar de ver un solo mundo, el nuestro, lo vemos bajo múltiples formas.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Mundo, Forma

  Marcel Proust (1932). "Ciudades de la llanura"

• We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Filosofía, Pensamiento

• Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Persons, Knows

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained".

• Gracias al arte, en lugar de ver un solo mundo, el nuestro, lo vemos multiplicado y, por muchos artistas originales que haya, son muchos los mundos que tenemos a nuestra disposición.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Mundo, Gracias

  Marcel Proust (2015). "Recuerdo de las cosas pasadas, tiempo recobrado", p.161, Marcel Proust.

• Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Art, Disappointment

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.863, Delphi Classics

• Porque todo aquel que no tenga sentido artístico, es decir, que no se someta a la realidad subjetiva, puede tener la habilidad de razonar sobre el arte hasta el día del juicio final, especialmente si es, además, diplomático o financiero en contacto con las "realidades" de la actualidad, está demasiado dispuesto a creer que la literatura es un juego intelectual que está destinado a abandonarse gradualmente con el paso del tiempo.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Creer, Realidad

• Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Lying, Passion

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.300, Modern Library

• Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Moon, Views

• All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Great Work, Great Things

• What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Work, Posterity

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.512, Jester House Publishing

• In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Profound, Byzantine

• Una especie de autoevaluación egoísta es inevitable en esas alegrías en las que la erudición y el arte se mezclan y en las que el placer estético puede agudizarse, pero no permanecer tan puro.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Ser, Alegría

  Prefacio de Marcel Proust (1910) a John Ruskin "The Bible of Amiens" traducido por Marcel Proust (1904); citado posteriormente en "Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin" traducido por Jean Autret y Philip J. Wolfe (p. 53), 1987.

• True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Real, Flower

• A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Filosofía, Historia

• I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Law, Doctors

• I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Mind

  Marcel Proust (1966). "Cartas de Marcel Proust"

• The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Opportunity, Genius

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.509, Modern Library

• La gran cualidad del verdadero arte es que redescubre, capta y nos revela esa realidad alejada de donde vivimos, de la que nos alejamos cada vez más a medida que el conocimiento convencional al que la sustituimos se hace más espeso e impermeable.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Realidad, Calidad

  Marcel Proust (1948). "Las máximas de Marcel Proust"

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