A Quotes
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“Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.”
“Art does not tolerate reason.”
“Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.”
“Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.”
Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
“Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“Art doesn’t fill a space—it transforms it into something sacred.”
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.”
“Art doesn't have to be perfect.
It's the emotions you pour into it are the ones that must be REAL.”
“Art doesn't need to be good to be valuable. I've heard it said that art is the truly useless creation - intended for no mechanical purpose. Valued only because of the perception of the people who view it.
The thing is, everything is useless, intrinsically. Nothing has value unless we grant it that value. Any object can be worth whatever we decide it to be worth.”
Source: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Art doesn’t need to be more complex or more realistic to be valid.”
“Art doesn't owe anything to anyone.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“Art doesn't owe anything to anyone. Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had 5he right to claim any emotion at any time.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“Art doesn't owe anything to anyone. Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.”
“Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.”
“Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.”
Source: For Keeps
“Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.”
“Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.”
“Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.”
“Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.”
“Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.”
Source: Conversations with Raymond Carver
“Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.”
“Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.”
“Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.”
“Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.”
“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”
Source: Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...
“Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.”
“Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.”
“Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.”
“Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.”
“Art enables me to live how I prefer to.”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.”
“Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.”
“Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognizance … It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.”
Source: Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
“Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.”
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
“Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.”
“Art exists because life is not enough.”
“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.”
“Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world”
“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message”
“Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one wants to see manifest, what one wants to bring into the world, what one desires to have exist.”
“Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.”
“Art expresses beauty and truth," Georgia said. "It's a gift. It's meant to be experienced and interacted with not used. That's what's so gross about what the Distortionists do. They use art instead of making it or even enjoying it. They turn art into propaganda.”
Source: Beneath the Swirling Sky
“Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul.”
“Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists.”
“Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.”