A Quotes
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“Art and politics have many things in common.”
“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.”
Source: Down There (Là Bas): A Study in Satanism
“Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.”
Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
“Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning, and that is what I am experiencing just now.”
Source: The Unicorn
“Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.”
Source: The Unicorn
“Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.”
“Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.”
“Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.”
“Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It's the same origin.”
“Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.”
“Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.”
“Art and revolt will die only with the last man.”
“Art, and sadness, which last forever.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)”
“Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.”
“Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.”
“Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.”
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have been plenty of very good female painters, 2006 Turner Prize-winner Tomma Abts among them. How much history needs to pass before an artist is called 'great'? That is the real question.”
“Art and Soil offers a thoughtful and detail-oriented collection of indoor and outdoor plants, living art pieces and decor items to delight your soul.”
“Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.”
“Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me.”
“Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell talks about, "the heroes journey," a beautiful documentary on a poignant topic, the fireman saving a kitten from a burning building. It's the combo of heroism and kindness against the odds or even good reason. It implies immortality because it is the domain of the soul. That evidence of the spirit of life is what makes me get out of bed in the morning.”
“Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.”
“Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”
“Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.”
“Art appears in its best form when it is brought out from the boundaries of the rules, provided the artist knows the rules very well.”
“Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.”
Source: Robert Henri, 1865-1929: Exhibition October 15-November 27, 1976
“Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.”
Source: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
“Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)”
“Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.”
“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
“ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us?”
“Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.”
“Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we think of as beauty changes with time. The notion of beauty everywhere changes.”
“Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.”
“Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.”
“Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.”
“Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.”
“Art, at its best, is a kind of uncontrolled yet disciplined Yelp, made by one of us who, because of the brain he was born with and the experiences he has had and the training he has received, is able to emit a Yelp that contains all of the joys, miseries, and contradictions of life as it is actually lived.”
Source: The Braindead Megaphone
“Art at its core is a grandiose energy of love.”
“Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.”
Source: Strong opinions
“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
“Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.”
Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction
“Art attests to what is inhuman in man.”
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”