A Quotes
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“All art is propaganda.”
Source: A patriot after all, 1940-1941
“All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.”
“All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”
“All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.”
“All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.”
“All art is quite useless.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more
“All art is self-portraiture.”
“All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.”
“All art is someone trying to tell you something.”
“All art is subversive.”
“All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.”
“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
“All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.”
Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
“All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.”
“All art is valid. Even religious art. Even sacrilegious art. Even risqué art. Even gory art. Even bad art. Even AI art. Try not to confuse freedom with privilege. Ask yourself often, what are you fighting for exactly?”
“All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.”
Source: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years
“All art of the past must be destroyed.”
“All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.”
“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”
“All art requires courage.”
“All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.”
Source: An Anthology
“All art stems from an irrepressible urge to share emotion. The best artists have lived; and, in that living, endured profound heartache and blissful joy.”
“All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.”
“All art, when you get down to it, is a lie.”
Source: In Limbo
“All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.”
Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic
“All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.”
“All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.”
“ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.”
“All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.”
“All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.”
“All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?”
“All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.”
“All Artists are Anarchists.”
“All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.”
“All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.”
“All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.”
“All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.”
“All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.”
“All artists are now free to express their own personality.”
“All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.”
“All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.”
“All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.”
“All artists are tortured by all they're not and by art that's not theirs.”
Source: Still Life
“All artists are two-headed calves.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
“All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.”
“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
“All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.”
Source: The Road Home
“All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.”
Source: A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea
“All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.”