A Quotes
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“All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.”
“All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.”
“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.”
“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.”
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”
“All art is a kind of confession.”
“All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.”
“All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.”
Source: Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition
“All art is a revolt against man's fate.”
“All art is a self-portrait. Even if you do a painting of someone else. Art helps us find ourselves.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.”
“All art is about appealing to emotion.”
“All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.”
“All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.”
“All art is an imitation of nature.”
“All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.”
“All art is at once surface and symbol.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.”
“All art is autobiographical.”
“All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.”
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
“All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.”
Source: Triptych
“All art is based on non-conformity.”
“All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.”
“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
“All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.”
“All art is concerned with coming into being.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.”
“All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?”
“All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .”
“All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.”
“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”
“All art is exploitation.”
“All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.”
“All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.”
“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”
“All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.”
“All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.”
“All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.”
Source: The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats
“All art is infested by other art.”
“All art is knowing when to stop.”
“All art is made from anger.”
Source: Lawrence Weiner
“all art is pain
suffered and outlived”
Source: Collected Poems
“All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.”
“All art is political, all art is a martial one.”
“All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.”