A Quotes
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“Art lies by its own artifice.”
“Art lies in concealing art.”
“Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.”
“Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”
“Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.”
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 like life is an open secret.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such an aim, one must first unequivocally posit oneself as a freedom. The restrictions that education and custom impose on a woman limit her grasp of the universe...Indeed, for one to become a creator, it is not enough to be cultivated, that is, to make going to shows and meeting people part of one's life; culture must be apprehended through the free movement of a transcendence; the spirit with all its riches must project itself in an empty sky that is its to fill; but if a thousand fine bonds tie it to the earth, its surge is broken. The girl today can certainly go out alone, stroll in the Tuileries; but I have already said how hostile the street is: eyes everywhere, hands waiting: if she wanders absentmindedly, her thoughts elsewhere, if she lights a cigarette in a cafe, if she goes to the cinema alone, an unpleasant incident can quickly occur; she must inspire respect by the way she dresses and behaves: this concern rivets her to the ground and self. "Her wings are clipped." At eighteen, T.E. Lawrence went on a grand tour through France by bicycle; a young girl would never be permitted to take on such an adventure...Yet such experiences have an inestimable impact: this is how an individual in the headiness of freedom and discovery learns to look at the entire world as his fief...[The girl] may feel alone within the world: she never stands up in front of it, unique and sovereign.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.”
“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.”
“Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.”
“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”
“Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.”
Source: The Art of Fiction
“Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.”
“Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.”
Source: The seventh seal: a film
“Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images with vague messages and symbols that keep you guessing and wondering what it all means, if anything. What these art buffs don’t seem to realize is that true complexity—the real abstract image—lies in something as simple and as random as a family photo. If they bothered to look deeply and closely enough into these unremarkable images, they would see the lies, the sorrow and the dark secrets that hide behind the superficial smiles and forced joviality. A picture is worth a thousand words, but most of those words get lost in translation.”
Source: The Waking World
“Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures.”
Source: Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
“Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.”
Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism
“Art made tongue-tied by authority.”
“Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.”
“Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)”
“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
Source: How to be Both
“Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.”
“Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.”
“Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.”
Source: The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next
“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.”
“Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.”
“Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.”
“Art making allows your soul to grow. The more you make art of the shades of emotions, the more you open into a full bloom flower. Arting makes you blossom wholly.”
“Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I think that, wherever you are in the world, that impulse exists within human beings.”
“Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.”
“Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.”
“Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.”
“Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.”
“Art may be criticised, mocked and burned, but it can never be ignored.”
Source: The Dream To End All Dreams
“Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.”
“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”
“Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.”
“Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.”
“Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God”
“Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1950-2012
“Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.”
“Art means to dare - and to have been right.”
“Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.”
“Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.”
“Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.”
“Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also think that it gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world. Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process"?”
“Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.”
“Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.”
Source: Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings