A Quotes
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“Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.”
“Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.”
“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.”
“Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.”
“Art is the proper task of life.”
“art is the pulse of a nation.”
“Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
“Art is the questioning of culture”
“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”
“Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.”
Source: Classics Revisited
“Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind.”
“Art is the remembrance of the universal presence of God.”
Source: Life, Science And Art: Being Leaves From Ernest Hello
“Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.”
Source: The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys
“Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.”
“Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.”
“Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.”
“Art is the right hand of Nature.”
Source: Schiller's Complete Works
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
“Art is the same as nature”
Source: Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry
“Art is the same, It demands everything. You either live it or you don’t. If it’s not ink flowing through your veins or twelve octaves in your case then what’s the point?”
Source: Beyond Passion and Dreams: Two Souls. One Fire. No Survivors.
“Art is the sex of the imagination.”
Source: The World in Falseface
“Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.”
“Art is the signature of civilizations.”
“Art is the signature of man.”
“Art is
the silent dialogue
between imagination and emotion.”
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”
Source: Aesthetic Theory
“Art is the soul of a people.”
“Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.”
“Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.”
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
Source: Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life
“Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.”
Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Introduction. book 1. Renaissance and reformation, from the black death to the thirty years' war
“Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.”
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.”
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.”
“Art is the timeless narrator of the society's story.”
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
Source: William Blake. Textes choisis et presentes par Francis Leaud
“Art is the triumph over chaos.”
Source: Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
“Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.”
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 the unyet is”
“Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic”
“Art is the way to galaxies, to grab some miracles here on earth which are impossible to the rest of the world, it always challenges the obsolete belief systems. As i read somewhere a very beautiful message for life and growth, "Break the systems if they kill your art, souls and creativity, walk alone if it's necessary." enjoy the process.
~ Mohsin Ali Shaukat”
“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.”
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.”
Source: On Beauty
“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”
Source: The Noise of Time