A Quotes
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“Art is made to trouble but science reassures.”
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.”
Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology
“Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.”
“Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.”
“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
“Art is man added to Nature.”
“Art is man determined to die sane.”
“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”
“Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.”
“Art is man's refuge from adversity.”
“Art is manipulation without intervention.”
“Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.”
“Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.”
“Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.”
“Art is memory made public. Time wins in the long run. Books turn to dust, negatives decay, records get worn out, civilizations burn. But as long as the art endures, a song or a view or a thought or a feeling someone once thought worth keeping is saved and stays shareable. Others can say, “I feel that too.”
Source: Utopia Avenue
“Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.”
“Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.”
Source: The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958
“Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Art is more engaging that propaganda.”
“Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.”
“Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.”
“Art is more to do with observation than invention.”
“Art is most effective when concealed.”
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“Art is much, but love is more.”
Source: Poetical works
“Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.”
“Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.”
“Art is my God, Music is my religion.”
“Art is my Life.”
“Art is my life and my life is art.”
“Art is nature as seen through a temperament.”
“Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.”
“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”
“Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.”
Source: Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action
“Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot be the artistic aim. Art is about necessity, not about human will. Society is more and more brainwashed and mistakes itself for art.”
“Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.”
“Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.”
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Art is never right or wrong; it's always beautiful from the artist's perspective.”
Source: Quantraz
“Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”
Source: On Writing
“Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful”
“Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.”
“Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is as usueful as bread.”
“Art is non-essential, until it is not.”
Source: Stick No Bills
“Art is not 'about.' Art is.”
“Art is not a career - it's a life.”