A Quotes
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“Art is a gift that never stops giving. It’s un-wanting even though it commands attention, and it’s one of two things that I know to be truly altruistic. The other is nature.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.”
“Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.”
“Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.”
“Art is a guarantee of sanity.”
Source: Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000
“Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have
said.”
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
“Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.”
“Art is a hot soup in this cold world!”
“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.”
“Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.”
“Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.”
Source: What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)
“Art is a jealous mistress.”
“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
“Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.”
“Art is a journey of discovery.”
“Art is a key of development of any Nation by regarding by culture and vision of that community.”
“Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Art is a kind of illness.”
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.”
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.”
“Art is a Language of Peace.
Let's Draw a better world.”
“Art is a language that transcends borders and time. A painting, a poem, or a melody can communicate what words alone cannot. It holds the power to awaken emotions, challenge perspectives, and connect souls across generations.”
“Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.”
Source: Jean Dubuffet: Two Decades, 1943-1962 : November 1 - December 31, 1983
“Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.”
“Art is a leap into the dark.”
“Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“Art is a lie that reveals deep truths. Metaphor is one way to translate experience; symbols help us stretch our minds to finger elusive and illustrative truths. Truths are not always logical and human truth finding does not fit snugly onto the silicon chip of a computer. The rational as well as the irrational unites us as specie. We share expressible knowledge and suspect within ourselves and other people the unspeakable. The unfathomable is as much a part of our celestial humanity as is the dirt clutching our shoes, which accumulated grime grounds us to physical reality.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Art is a line around your thoughts.”
Source: Gustav Klimt Artworks
“Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.”
“Art is a luxury but also a necessity.”
“Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.”
“Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds”
Source: The seventh horse, and other tales
“Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
“Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.”
Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
“Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.”
“Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive.”
“Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.”
Source: What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)
“Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.”
“Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.”
“Art is a medley of truths and silly things. A tapestry of useful sins.”
“Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.”
Source: Tolstoy's Diaries: 1895-1910