A Quotes
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“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”
“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.”
“Art is something we create; science is something we discover”
“Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.”
“Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.”
“Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.”
“Art is stronger than Nature”
Source: I, Titian
“Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.”
“Art is subtle. Stupidity is loud.”
“Art is such an important part of our culture.”
“Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.”
“Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.”
“Art is supposed to reflect your journey through real life.”
Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“Art is supposed to reflect your journey through real life. Your discovery of your character in solitude and around other people, the moments of clarity when you feel loved and the moment when your heart breaks so much that you can hear it crack. When you run careless and free on open fields and when you're struggling on your way home on the bus. This is what makes you a real artist. Experiences, moments, stories. Falling recklessly in love, losing someone you love and then learning to belong to yourself again. Going to new places, meeting new people, driving in the middle of the night on empty streets. Going to the ocean and staying there until 6 a.m, smoking cigarettes and talking about roses and butterflies. These are the things that will give you something worth writing about, worth singing about, worth creating art around.”
Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.”
“Art is taking a small piece of the infinite world inside us and bringing it to the outside world!”
“Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.”
“Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.”
“Art is that which helps you see
beauty in the mundane...
Let my life be a work of art.”
Source: Senses
“Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.”
“Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.”
“Art is the absence of fear.”
“Art is the accomplice of love.”
Source: Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas
“Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
Source: Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas
“Art is the act of adding our own art to the magnificent art of nature!”
“Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.”
“Art is the act of navigating without a map.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.”
“Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.”
Source: The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys
“Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.”
Source: The Guy Davenport Reader
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Art is the beauty of soul, which shines through eyes and sounds with a heart.”
“Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.”
“Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.”
“Art is the child of imagination and gives life.”
“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.”
“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”
“Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.”
“Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.”
“Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.”
“Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.”
“Art is the communication of ecstasy.”
“Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”
“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as one cannot grow except by having one’s spirit greatly stirred; and the spirit cannot be greatly stirred by spiritless things. Much of our very life is dead. For primitive man, this was not so. He made his own possessions, and shaped and decorated them with the aim of making them not merely useful, but powerful. He tried to infuse his weapons with the nature of the tiger, his cooking pots with the life of growing things; and he succeeded. Appearance, material, history, context, rarity - perhaps rarity most of all - combine to create, magically, the quality of soul. But we modern demiurges are prolific copyists; we give few things souls of their own. Locomotives, with their close resemblance to beasts, may be the great exception; but in nearly all else with which today’s poor humans are filling the world, I see a quelling of the numinous, an ashening of the fire of life. We are making an inert world; we are building a cemetery. And on the tombs, to remind us of life, we lay wreaths of poetry and bouquets of painting. You expressed this very condition, when you said that art beautifies life. No longer integral, the numinous has become optional, a luxury - one of which you, my dear friend, are fond, however unconsciously. You adorn yourself with the same instincts as the primitive who puts a frightening mask of clay and feathers on his head, and you comport yourself in an uncommonly calculated way - as do I. We thus make numinous phenomena of ourselves. No mean trick - to make oneself a rarity, in this overpopulated age.”
Source: The Etched City
“Art is the consciousness of currency.”
“Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.”
“Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.”