A Quotes
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“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”
Source: Rodin on Art and Artists
“Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.”
“Art is craft, not inspiration.”
“Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“Art is created by artists. If ever he’d try to take lessons, it would be too many rules, too many steps. It would make his head hurt, not being able to splatter his emotions onto paper in his own way.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.”
“Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible.”
“Art is creation. It’s taking a blank page and turning it into a poem. Stretching out an empty canvas and breathing life onto it with the stroke of a brush and a swath of paint. It’s sitting before a quiet piano and wak¬ing it up with a song. Where there was nothing, an artist creates some¬thing. Something beautiful. Thought-provoking. Tragic. Controversial. That’s what artists do: We create.”
Source: Becoming an Artist: How to Make Art Like a Human by Embracing Failure, Discovering Your Creative Voice & Finding Joy in the Process
“Art is creation outshining destruction.”
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.”
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.”
Source: On My Painting - Max Beckmann
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.”
“Art is dedicated echo.”
“Art is difficult, transient is her reward.”
“Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.”
“Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.”
“Art is doing something you really believe in.”
“Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.”
“ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.”
“Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.”
“Art is either a complaint or appeasement.”
Source: Jasper Johns Drawings, 1954-1984
“Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.”
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
“Art is either revolution or plagiarism”
“Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.”
“Art is elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.”
“Art is emotion without desire.”
“Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.”
Source: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
“Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.”
Source: A Personal Anthology
“Art is energy, emotion, entertainment and sometimes economics.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.”
“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.”
Source: Blood Memory
“Art is eternal, but life is short.”
“Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.”
“Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!”
“Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters”
“Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.”
“Art is evidence of our most creative moment.”
“Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.”
“Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.”
“art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.”
“Art is expression of heart”
“Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.”
Source: Lectures and Essays
“Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.”
Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
“Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.”
“Art is far feebler than necessity.”
Source: Prometheus Bound
“Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.”
“Art is fire plus algebra.”