A Quotes
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“Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live”
“Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.”
“Art indeed is long, but life is short.”
Source: The Poems of Andrew Marvell
“Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.”
“Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.”
“Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.”
“Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.”
“Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.”
“Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Art is 110 percent sweat.”
“Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.”
“Art is a big question mark.”
“Art is a business, like any other.”
“Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.”
“Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve.”
“Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.”
“Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.”
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
“Art is a complementary source of truth, for it enlists the help of the imagination to carry mankind beyond a mere observation of facts. Real achievement is possible only when both work in association.”
Source: A Journey Round My Skull
“Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.”
Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
“Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.”
“Art is a constellation of emotions, spread across the sky of perception.”
“Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”
“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”
“Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained.”
“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”
“Art is a creed, not a craft.”
“Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.”
“Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.”
“Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.”
“Art is a delayed echo.”
“Art is a delivery system for worldviews.”
“Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.”
“Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.”
Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba
“Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.”
“Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.”
“Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.”
“Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.”
“Art is a form of catharsis.”
Source: Dorothy Parker
“Art is a form of consciousness.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?”
“Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have”
“Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.”
“Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.”
“Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.”
“Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.”
Source: Powers of the weak
“Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it has its own realm. It's like when you say "The Arts," those are all the arts, dance, theater, ballet. So within that set of areas of expression, we have visual art and it is visual and it's about looking at something and seeing it in the light with our eyes, maybe touching it or not touching it, or wanting to touch it, not being able to touch it.”
“Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.”
“Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.”
“ART IS A GIFT THAT IS MEANT TO BE
SHARED AND SERVED
FAMILY STYLE”
Source: Friend In Your Pocket Conversations With M.I.N.I M.E: Class Is Now In Session