A Quotes
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“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”
Source: Encounter
“Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Art must be a slow and normal evolution.”
“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.”
“Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.”
“Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.”
“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”
Source: Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture
“Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.”
Source: Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition
“Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.”
“Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment”
“Art must not serve might.”
“Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.”
“Art must state a link to the challenges of previous eras and the twinkles and heartbeats of the present moment to ensure a ‘trans historic’ bond with our living world where past and present can converse. ("When is Art?")”
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
“Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.”
“Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.”
“Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.”
“Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.”
“Art, mythology, religion, philosophy, history, anthropology, science, and medicine along with literature, autobiographies, biographies, essays, memoirs, poetry, and other works of fiction and nonfiction serve as a vast library for us to scour in search of the hidden keys to attaining knowledge and happiness. We glimpse individual revelation along with selective rays of radiance from every person’s conscientious act of documenting their long-term commitment to achieving a gleaming living testament to enlightenment.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.”
“Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.”
“Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.”
“Art needs an operation”
Source: Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
“Art needs no spur beyond itself.”
“Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!”
“Art needs to be imaginatively undressed in order to be appreciated, and so does the world.”
Source: The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries
“Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.”
“Art needs to stand for something.”
“Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.”
“Art never comes from happiness.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Art never expresses anything but itself.”
“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays
“Art never lies, I believe.”
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”
Source: De Kooning: A Retrospective
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.”
Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
“Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.”
“Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.”
“Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.”
“Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.”
“Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.”
“Art of Linguistics (Sonnet 1223)
No language speaks of freedom better than spanish,
No language speaks of love better than turkish,
No language speaks of oneness better than sanskrit,
No language interprets better than our good ol' english.
No language speaks to computers better than code,
No language speaks of matter better than physics.
No language speaks of mind better than neurology,
No language speaks pattern better than mathematics.
No language speaks of thought better than philosophy,
No language speaks of emotion better than poetry.
No language speaks of justice better than sociology,
No language speaks of behavior better than psychology.
Purpose of language is communication not argumentation,
If it doesn't bridge the cliffs it all brings but extinction.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.”
“Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by women because that's what's in our world.”
“Art on the canvas arises from a broken heart. What you lose yourself in becomes a sky of stars or trembling roses.”
“Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.”
“Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.”
“Art only begins where Imitation ends.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.”