A Quotes
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“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”
“Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.”
“Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.”
“Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.”
“Art is not disposable.”
“Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.”
“Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.”
“Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.”
“Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.”
Source: Collected Prose
“Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.”
“Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.”
Source: A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
“Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art wants to give back everything what's in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.”
“Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.”
Source: John Marin
“Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.”
“Art is not in some far-off place.”
Source: Break It Down: Stories
“Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability”
Source: Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”
“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently creates what we describe as beautiful by depicting what is at first glance unpleasing, peculiar, or abnormal and casting the unpleasant, strange, or outlandish images into a more agreeable light that reaches deeper truths.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.”
“Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.”
Source: Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit
“Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.”
“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.”
“Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.”
“Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.”
Source: Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943
“Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.”
“Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy
“Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.”
“Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.”
“Art is not only about angst.”
“Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Art is not only expression — it is my way of understanding life and sharing love with the world”
“Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.”
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948
“Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. That alone is a kind of political act. A good novel about a tea party of rich women can be just as galvanizing and important to the soul as War and Peace, so I think it's not really the job of artists to do anything. They can have their opinions as private citizens, but they must continue making their art.”
“Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.”
“Art is not simply an external ornament donned by the cult to conceal its excessively harsh and austere side; rather the cult has an aesthetic aspect in itself.”
“Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.”
“Art is not some fun add-on to life.”
“Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts is to doom one's nation to a life of incuriosity, dullness, literalness and the worst kind of rank materialism.”
“Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.”
“Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.”
Source: Lethaby, a Continuing Presence: Seven Essays Taken from Form in Civilization
“Art is not subject to reason, it is intuitive. When you start creating what your powerful imagination tells you, when you surrender to your spiritual impulse and inspiration completely, without thinking beforehand about the end result of your creativity. It is then as if the emotional range of your sensitive mind has been crafted into the delicate spectrum of colors. A vision of black and white is now a marvel of mesmerizing stains.”
Source: It Has Magic
“Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.”
“Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!”
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”
Source: Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977
“Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.”
“Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.”
Source: The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy