A Quotes
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“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.”
Source: The Noise of Time
“Art is the window to man's soul.
Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world;
nor could the world see the man within.”
“Art is the word we give to our feelings made public and art doesn't worry anyone”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.”
“Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.”
“Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.”
“Art is theft.”
“Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
“Art is there for nourishment, not explication.”
“Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life”
“Art is timeless. It’s the soul of humanity.”
Source: The Brave
“Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.”
“Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.”
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
“Art is to look at not to criticize.”
“Art is too important not to share.”
“Art is too long, and life is too short.”
Source: Conversations with Grace Paley
“Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.”
“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
“Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.”
Source: The Razor's Edge
“Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.”
Source: Alice Neel: black and white
“Art is ultimately schizophrenic.”
“Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.”
“Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind. Distinctions of tongue or boundary lines disappear before the power of truths, which, like the rainbow, charm by the beauty of variegated hues, or, combined with light, illuminate the universe. Moreover, art is the connecting link in the chain of great minds. Through its language, thought appeals to thought, and sympathy echoes feeling.”
Source: Art-hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
Source: The Pleasures of Life
“Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.”
“Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.”
“Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”
“Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.”
“Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.”
Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas
“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.”
“Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.”
“Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.”
“Art is what appeals to the a priori.”
“Art is what everyone knows it is.”
Source: Breviary of aesthetics: four lectures
“Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.”
“Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.”
Source: Sky Bridge
“Art is what is irresistible.”
“Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.”
“Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.”
Source: Alternating Current
“Art is what separates us from the animals.”
“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”
“Art is what we do when we're truly alive.”
Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
“Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.”
Source: Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
“Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“Art is what you can get away with.”
“Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.”
“Art is whatever you can get away with.”
“Art is when things appear rounded.”