A Quotes
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“Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.”
“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.”
Source: The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art
“Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.”
“Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.”
“Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.”
“Art can unbolt your soul and reshape the fundamentals of your life.”
Source: Good Girl
“Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.”
“Art cannot be above the battle.”
“Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.”
“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation”
“Art cannot be fixed to a single location because lived experience is not left behind in the room where the object rests unseen at night after the museum has closed its doors. The art object travels in many bodies in multiple forms and it speaks and writes and sings in many languages.It is a living thing.”
Source: Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
“Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.”
“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
Source: Egon Schiele: love and death
“Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.”
“Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.”
Source: The Invention of Love
“Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.”
Source: The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics
“Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.”
“Art cannot save anybody from anything.”
“Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.”
“Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.”
Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
“Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life.”
“Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.”
“Art changes people people change the world.”
“Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Art chooses its constraints.”
“Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.”
“Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.”
“Art class was my thing, but not any other class.”
“Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.”
“Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.”
Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.”
“Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.”
“Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.”
“Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.”
“Art comes from life, not from the studio”
“Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.”
“Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.”
“Art comes of age in Point Cook.”
“Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.”
Source: Writing Home
“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”
“Art comes with a splash of colors ...as you get torn between depression and elation...agony and ecstasy ...and with the surging and slowing of tides.. there arises the gentle and fierce brush strokes....ultimately creating a mix of emotions on the canvas and there comes the colors on a blank canvas...an art....so virgin, raw and pure...”
“Art comes with a splash of colors ...as you get torn between depression and elation...agony and ecstasy ...and with the surging and slowing of tides.. there arises the gentle and fierce brush strokes....ultimately creating a mix of emotions on the cloth and there comes the colors on a blank ...an art....so virgin, raw and pure....”
“Art comes with a splash of colors ...as you get torn between depression and elation...agony and ecstasy ...and with the surging and slowing of tides.. there arises the gentle and fierce brush strokes....ultimately creating a mix of emotions on the cloth and there comes the colors on a blank canvas ...an art....so virgin, raw and pure....”
“Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.”
“Art completes our hearts.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.”
“Art consist of a writer or painter’s psychosis extirpated on the canvas of his choosing, a truism whether one is inspecting a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece or deciphering the incomprehensible utterings and dissociated ramblings of one of the Philistines framed in the picaresque novel ‘Confederacy of Dunces, written by American novelist John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969).”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Art consists in making others feel what we feel.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
“Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.”