A Quotes
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“Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.”
“Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.”
“Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.”
“Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.”
“Art always demands of us something new.”
“Art always dies
before society does
as history shows
and to our era
at humanity’s end
the world was glad
to be rid of
what it never had
to understand”
Source: The Tedium Lies
“Art always has something of the unconscious about it.”
“Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.”
“Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.”
“Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.”
Source: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
“Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.”
“Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit.”
“Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.”
“Art: an earnest love for an immortal lie.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“Art and accident are one.”
“Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.”
“Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.”
“Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.”
Source: Complete Writings, 1975-1986
“Art and beauty have the unsuspected force of triggering mental power that gives people courage and confidence to steam ahead. Art and beauty bring to life unfulfilled hope, creative imagination, and bountiful goodwill.”
Source: Stilling our Mind
“Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.”
“Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.”
Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
“Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.”
“Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.”
Source: How to Listen to Jazz
“Art and education may refine the taste, but they cannot purify the heart and regenerate the individual. His (Christ’s) words were simple yet profound. And they shook people, provoking either happy acceptance or violent refection. People were never the same after listening to him….The people who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.”
“Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Art and freedom of expression will change the world faster than politics and religion combined.”
“Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.”
Source: Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings
“Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.”
“Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching”
Source: The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History
“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”
“Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.”
“Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.”
“Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.”
“Art and literature are curses that we love.-Aron Micko H.B”
Source: Endless Extremity: The Origin
“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”
“Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such intense sociality. There are some small mammals that have become eusocial - the mole rats - but that's a different thing. Humans are able to understand one another at very high levels, to cooperate in very large groups. Humans depend on one another in ways that are an absolute precondition to sharing the kinds of information that makes narrative possible.”
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.”
“Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.”
“Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.”
“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”
“Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.”
“Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.”
“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.”
“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.”
Source: The Piano Teacher
“Art and poetry are humbling in their power to make us bigger people. (From JFK: The Last Speech book)”
Source: Amherst College: An Architectural Tour
“Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.”
“Art and Poetry make us alive.”