Umberto Eco Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Translation is the art of failure.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Translations

• The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Uncles, Hair

• It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Dying, Succeed

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Doors, Romance

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.383, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Media, Voice

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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