A Quotes
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“Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.”
“Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy”
“Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.”
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
“Art is not a luxury, but a necessity. It is the way man endures his own light.”
“Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyone need art to tell us what we already know? Art makes us stand back and see what lies outside the four corners of a canvas, it makes us look inside ourselves and realize the sublime truth that previously eluded us. Art makes us realize what already lies within ourselves waiting for the resolute seeker to discover. Art frequently concentrates on the blemishes of nature. When one sees nature disfigured, it reveals both sides of the same notion.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Art is not a mirror but a hammer.”
“Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
“Art is not a mirror reflecting reality,
but a window revealing the soul.”
“Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.”
“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.”
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. If one’s own existence has no form, if its events do not come handily to mind and disclose their significance, we feel about ourselves as if we were reading a bad book.”
Source: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.”
Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...
“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.”
Source: What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)
“Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.”
Source: Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
“Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself.”
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10
“Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.”
“Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.”
“Art is not about perfection. It about perception.”
“Art is not about something, Art is something”
“Art is not about the audience; it's about the artist.”
Source: Quantraz
“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.”
“Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.”
“art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“Art is not always beautiful. But the struggle to create Art is always beautiful.”
“Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.”
“Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.”
“Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.”
“Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.”
“Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Art is not an escape into fantasy; it's an escape into reality.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.”
“Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.”
“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”
“Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.”
Source: Sommer: Words
“Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.”
“Art is not bound by rules or expectations.
It is the wild dance..
of imagination,
of weaving dreams,
of challenging perceptions.”
“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”
“Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
“Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.”
Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews
“Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.”
Source: A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea
“Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.”