A Quotes
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“Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.”
“Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.”
“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.”
“Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.”
“Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.”
Source: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
“Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.”
“Art flows well when music is the conduit.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Art follows power. Just as soldiers hang medals from their uniforms, the rich hang paintings on their walls.”
Source: The Improbability of Love
“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”
“Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.”
“Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.”
“Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake”
“Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.”
“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”
“Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]”
“Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.”
“Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.”
“Art for me is like breathing.”
“Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?”
“Art for me is the science of freedom.”
“Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.”
“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”
“Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.”
“Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.”
“Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.”
“Art frees us, illusorily, from the squalor of being. While feeling the wrongs and sufferings endured by Hamlet, prince of Denmark, we don’t feel our own, which are vile because they’re ours and vile because they’re vile.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Art functioning as propaganda is not art.”
“Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.”
“Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.”
Source: Don Quixote: Or, The Critique of Reading
“Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.”
“Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.”
“Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.”
“Art gives people a reason to be alive.”
“Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.”
“Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn self-belief. You CAN have faith and doubt at the same time; the most insecure writer on the planet has faith that shines just as bright as her doubt, and she deserves props for that. It might be hidden deep, she might not feel it and you might not see it, but it’s in there, or she wouldn’t be able to write.”
“Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.”
“Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.”
“Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.”
“Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.”
“Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.”
“Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.”
“Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.”
“Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.”
Source: Art For Dummies