A Quotes
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“Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.”
“Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.”
“Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!”
“Art creates new dimensions, opens our scope, and transcends us from demeaning "pettiness" that haunts the minds of emotionally underprivileged people. ("When is Art?")”
“Art creates the Eden where Adam and Eve eat the serpent.”
Source: Darconville's cat
“Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?”
“Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.”
“Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one of the most challenging.. if only because so few people have done it well enough to be remembered.. but I'm not sure the challenge is worth it.”
Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949
“Art critics are like every other critic.”
“Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.”
“Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).”
“Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.”
“Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”
“Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.”
“Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.”
“Art definitely adds a height, a depth, a divinity and an eternity to the place it touches!”
“Art degraded, Imagination denied.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“Art demands constant observation.”
“Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.”
“Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.”
“Art depends on luck and talent.”
“Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down on his or her knees picturing a dog has found pleasure enough to make many things possible.”
Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.”
Source: Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's
“Art destroys silence.”
“Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the self of its masks in order to analyze how those masks are made - by what means, by whom, for what ostensible purpose - those poems risk offering us refuge.”
“Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.”
“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”
“Art disturbs, science reassures.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute
“Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.”
“Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.”
“Art does not come from thinking but from responding.”
Source: Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit
“Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.”
“Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.”
Source: The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”
“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.”
“Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.”
“Art does not explain.”
“Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.”
“Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.”
Source: The Secret of the Bulls
“Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.”
“Art does not imitate, but interpret.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?”
Source: Selected Writings
“Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.”
Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. It is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.”
Source: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
“Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”
Source: Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection
“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”
“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”