A Quotes
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“Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
“Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.”
Source: Shakespeare: An Address
“Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.”
“Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.”
“Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.”
“Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.”
“Art has a way of expressing the thoughts, feelings, and events of the artist. Some paintings show things as simple as merry childhood memories while others have the complexity of inner strife and pain. Whatever the art, there will always be a meaning.”
Source: Max Lightning and the Historic Mystery
“Art has a way of revealing truth.”
Source: The Story Peddler
“Art has absolutely changed my life.”
“Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.”
“Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.”
“Art has always been aware of itself as art.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Art has always been my salvation.”
“Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.”
“Art has always been seen as a pantheon of humanity, a quality that is quintessentially ours that no technology could ever replicate. As we peer into the future, we must remember the great benefits technology has provided us with. Robots will be bounded by the creativity and imagination of the human operating the machine.”
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.”
“Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“Art has always denied itself. But once it did so through excess, thrilling to the play of its disappearance. Today it denies itself by default - worse, it denies its own death.
It immerses itself in reality, instead of being the agent of the symbolic murder of that same reality, instead of being the magical operator of its disappearance.
And the paradox is that the closer it gets to this phenomenal confusion, this nullity as art, the greater credit and value it is accorded, to the extent that, to paraphrase Canetti, we have reached a point where nothing is beautiful or ugly any more; we passed that point without realizing it and, since we cannot get back to that blind spot, we can only persevere in the current destruction of art.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.”
“Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.”
“Art has an obligation to offend”
“Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.”
“Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.”
“Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.”
“Art has been serving man’s notion of God since there have been hands to make it.”
Source: In Limbo
“Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.”
“Art has got nothing to do with taste.”
“Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.”
“Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life”
Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
“Art has more ego to it than what I do.”
“Art has never been a popularity contest.”
“Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.”
“Art has no end but its own perfection.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)
“Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.”
Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews
“Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.”
“Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.”
“Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.”
“Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted”
Source: Max Ernst: a retrospective
“Art has one purpose: To make a refreshing magical touch to one's soul!”
“Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.”
“Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
Source: Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
“Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.”
“Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11”
“Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.”
“Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.”