A Quotes
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“Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.”
“Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.”
“Art has to address eternal issues.”
“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.”
“Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.”
“Art has to be reflective of our society.”
“Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.”
“Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.”
“Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.”
“Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.”
“Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.”
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”
“Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.”
Source: 10:04
“Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.”
“Art has two dimensions. Creative skills and creative intelligence. When both come together, a masterpiece is created.”
Source: Quantraz
“Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .”
Source: Every man in his humour. Every man out of his humour. Cynthia's revels; or, the fountain of self-love
“Art hath an enemy called ignorance.”
“Art, he felt, let him down. For great paintings he felt only respect. Museum spaces beckoned him in, even welcomed him, but then left him on his own.”
Source: Strangers
“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.”
Source: Dangerous Laughter
“Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.”
“Art helped give me confidence.”
“Art helps us to reconnect with the deepest core of our being, reminding us that there is something greater than ourselves.
I believe that any art form should help liberate us, not chain us tighter to our egoic sense of Self.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.”
“Art history is always changing too.”
“Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up in artist in time. But art is a little bit different. Art is a conversation. And if there's no conversation, what the hell is it about?”
“Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.”
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“Art, I understood now, was so much more than the sum of its brush strokes, curved clay appendages, or intricate stitching. There were stories woven, kneaded, and scratches into each piece. Blood, sweat, and tears intermixing with charcoal, textile, and canvas. Hopes, dreams, anger, fear, heartbreak, redemption, romance, and the thrilling sensation of falling in love all resided in an artist's word, the admirer of such pieces never knowing what emotions and story had shaped it.”
Source: The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
“Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.”
“Art imitates life. Then life turns around and imitates art. That’s the power of an artist. So, if you want to start a revolution just create art.”
Source: True Blue
“Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.”
“Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.”
“Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.”
“ART (in a business marketing context)
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Timely”
“Art in all its forms is simply a means to communicate, not a means to generate knowledge.”
Source: The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems
“Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.”
“Art in its essence is a dreamy vocation.”
Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary
“Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week The best and most extraordinary artists will be those who every hour snatch the tatters of their bodies out of the frenzied cataract of life, who, with bleeding hands and hearts, hold fast to the intelligence of their time.”
“Art, in its making and in its enjoying, demands long tracts of time. Books, like cats, do not wear watches”
“Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.”
“Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.”
“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.”
“Art in order to move you has to be political or sexual - whether it is on canvas, in the drum of the cello, in the words of the poet. If it doesn't move you, what is the point? And if it does move you, what is the point? The point is to touch your senses, your soul. To carve, as a knife in the right hands, carves beauty from a block of wood.”
Source: Katie in Love
“Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.”
“Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.”
Source: Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman
“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles and Other Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization”
“Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.”
“Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.”