A Quotes
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“Art is first a seeing and then a revealing”
“Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.”
“Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.”
“Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.”
Source: Into a Room: Selected Poems of William Soutar
“Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.”
“Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.”
“Art is for everybody.”
“Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.”
“Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.”
Source: The art of making dances
“Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.”
Source: Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis
“Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.”
“Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.”
“Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.”
“Art is found everywhere in nature, and what is surprising is that man still respects something that is no more useful than a spider web in the corner of a room. Which still leaves a little hope as far as the persistence of primordial communism is concerned. One must believe it is just as tenacious as turtles before all the floods, or, to put it another way, as tenacious as the lines on the palms of our hands.”
“ART is found in the very pulse of existence. It's changing lives and motivating the world around us.”
“Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas, they choose me. I don’t wait for them. They come without my permission!”
“Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.”
“Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.”
Source: Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose
“Art is fun, you know. And those who are true to themselves make truly great art. Because art is a language without words”
Source: ブルーピリオド 1 [Blue Period 1]
“Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.”
“Art is fundamentally serious; it cannot rest content with the gratification of fantasy, nor can it dwell on what fascinates us while avoiding altogether the question of its meaning. As Freud put it in another context, art provides the oath from fantasy back to reality. By creating a representation of something unreal, it persuades us to consider again those aspects of reality which, in the urgency of everyday existence, we have such strong motives for avoiding.”
Source: The Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture
“Art is good but it isn't the best.”
“Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.”
“Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.”
Source: Collected Letters, 1944-1967
“Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.”
“Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.”
“Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.”
“Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.”
“Art is hard for a puritan to understand.”
“Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.”
“Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.”
“Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.”
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
“Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.”
“Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs, choreographies-all are collisions of associations, associations deliberately and also unforeseeably formed. One attempts to manage the consequences. To mitigate the damage. I know that ''moon'' evokes roundness, whiteness, coolness, night. I might not know the way it reminds you of orchids, or miscarriage, or of Victoria, British Columbia. But no, perhaps I could predict orchids. Perhaps ''orchids'' and ''moon'' seem to vibrate on the same frequency to me too, something ineffable and strong. So perhaps I put them in a poem together. Perhaps I put ''roundness'' and ''whiteness'' and ''orchids'' in a poem together, omitting ''moon." Perhaps I let these gravities work on one another, an invisible web catching meanings in it. All of this, any of this: perhaps. I may choose any word to place beside the preceding word; a painter may choose any stroke. I test the water for salinity. I listen for what goes bump with the night.”
Source: Do You Remember Being Born?
“Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.”
“Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.”
“Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful.”
“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.”
“Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.”
“Art is in the street games of little children,
in our style and the words that we speak.
It is how the messy patchwork of the city
creates new meaning for ordinary things.”
Source: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.”
“Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”
“Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.”
“Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.”
“Art is inside of you; express yourself.”
“Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.”
“Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.”
Source: The Marsh of Gold: Pasternak's Writings on Inspiration and Creation
“Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.”
Source: On Writing