A Quotes
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“art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.”
“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself.
from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy”
“Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.”
“Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.”
Source: The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California
“Art is basically entertainment.”
“Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.”
“Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.”
Source: Günter Brus, Bild-Dichtungen: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 4 June-13 July 1980 ...
“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.”
“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.”
“Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!”
“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...”
“Art is born in attention.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Art is born of humiliation.”
“Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.”
“Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
“Art is born out of dreams that have yet to be realized in physical form.”
Source: If Stars Could Speak
“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.”
“Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.”
“Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.”
“Art is both creation and recreation.”
“Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.”
“Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.”
Source: Ansel Adams: an American Place, 1936
“Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.”
“Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.”
“Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.”
“Art is but imitation of nature.”
“Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a work. The more the individual is traumatised and gripped by these emotions, the more significant a place will the work have in his experience.
The aristocratic nature of art, however does not in any way absolve the artist of his responsibility to his public and even, if you like, more broadly, to people in general. On the contrary, because of his special awareness of his time and of the world in which he lives, the artist becomes the voice of those who cannot formulate or express their view of reality. In that sense the artist is indeed vox populi. That is why he is called to serve his own talent, which means serving his people.”
Source: Sculpting in Time
“Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.”
“Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.”
“Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.”
“Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.”
“Art is chaos and harmony infused together.
It is the expression of your emotions.
A form of both activism and rebellion.
It is, as they say, all around us.”
“Art is childhood.”
Source: Letters on Life
“Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.”
“Art is coming face to face with yourself.”
“Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.”
“Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.”
Source: Modern dance
“Art is communication.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness”
“Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.”
“Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.”
“Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.”
“Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.”
“Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.”
“Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?”
“Art is contemplation’,” a voice said out of nowhere. “‘It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there
divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.”