A Quotes
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“Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.”
“Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.”
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work.
Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.”
Source: The Gift of Asher Lev
“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”
“Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.”
Source: Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935
“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”
“Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.”
“Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.”
“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
“Art begins with silliness that reflects a reason in the real world.”
“Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life.”
“Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.”
Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus
“Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.”
“Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it [...] Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”
Source: The Noise of Time
“Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.”
“Art breeds loners. Loners breed art.”
Source: Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
“Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.”
“Art brings out the grand lines of nature.”
“Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.”
“Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.”
“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.”
“Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.”
“Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.”
“Art can be an expression of reality and also non-reality.”
“Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.”
“Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.”
“Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.”
“Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our attention, in numbness it may shake up our mind. If we don’t sense anything at all and take everything for granted, art can kick us in the ass, give a conscience and make us aware. ("When is Art?")”
“Art can certainly be time consuming, in more ways than one. For art which takes time to 'grow' on its eventual appreciators can certainly have taken equally as much, or more, time to 'grow' on the creators and warrant its creation.”
“Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.”
Source: What is Art?: And Essays on Art
“Art can contradict Science.”
“Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.”
“Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years.”
“Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?”
“Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.”
“Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.”
“Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.”
“Art can make chaos seductive.”
“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.”
“Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn't necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That's art, but there's more to it than that. As long as you're pouring your heart and soul into what you're doing, that's the weapon.”
“Art can never be so well served as by a negative thought. Its dark and humiliated proceedings are as necessary to the understanding of a great work as black is to white.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.”
“Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.”
“Art can only be taught by artists.”
Source: The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air
“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”
Source: At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe