A Quotes
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“Art opens the fishiest eye . . .”
“Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.”
“Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”
Source: Cinq Mars
“Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.”
Source: The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
“Art = Passionate = Stupid
- (BackStrom Season 1 episode 11)”
“Art persists, it timelessly continues.”
“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.”
“Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.”
“Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.”
Source: An autobiography
“Art problems are problems of human relationship.”
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.”
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
“Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own”
Source: Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
“Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.”
“Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life.”
“Art puts me trough life
and trough art I see life.”
“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.”
“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To be the creator of others' dreams, it is a responsibility that must not be taken lightly.”
“Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.”
“Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.”
“Art recreates me
Art heals me
Art breathes joy into me”
“Art reflects the current composition of a human soul. Perhaps when the artist finally arrives at the point of making art, an artist perceives all earlier drafts as remnants of their former loathsome self. Perhaps when the songwriter stops writing songs, the singer ceases singing, the musician no longer strums his or her instrument, and the poet no longer strings lyrical verses together they have entered a kingdom of one, a realm of aesthetical and ethical certitude. Perhaps when the writer who creates a piece of literature worthy of bestowing the exalted title of art, he or she must exhibit the same gracious manners by following suit by speaking no more.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.”
“Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.”
Source: Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music
“Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.”
“Art resonates within, bringing to the surface the beauty and inner chaos of each being, at every moment. And, like a tuning fork for a musical instrument, it fine-tunes the soul to the simplest and deepest tones of life.”
“Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”
“Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.”
“Art reveals the inner psyche of the artist. It takes a certain type of hardiness for a creative person to share their works to the public.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.”
“Art rides in on pleasure.”
“Art's relation to form, to the image, to the monistic fantasy that provoked its defense of its own dividedness is today, as Klein predicted, intermittent and embarrassed. There are modes of art now that resemble activism or protest, pure and simple; modes of art characterized by a refusal to structure themselves around subject-object relations. The visual itself, the image, is questioned as the normative framework of art. Art is often not a product, not a precious trace, not a singularity, but rahter a dynamic, multipular interaction that creates temporary publics who are public to one another. Art does not have to add anything to the world. for technology and entrepreneurship already do that. Art is an irreality opened up inside the world. Art is the refusal of complicity in any form of domination. You are not trapped by the collectivity, but you are not entirely free either, for freedom, even the anarchic mode of the artwork, is suspected to be a mode of evasion of responsibility. Art is a quasi-event: it is not there all the time (like a book), but it is also not there only at an assigned time (like a theatrical play). This has become a comparative advantage of art over the other arts, which have more trouble intervening in reality. Much art today is coordinated with long-term eschatological or emancipatory projects, with projects as such. Art aims at such positive goals as synchrony, participation, inclusion, and sympathy, concepts hard to reconcile with the once-prized, exclusive qualities of art.”
Source: A History of Art History
“Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.”
“Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”
“Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.”
“Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.”
“Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.”
“Art seduces, but does not exploit.”
“Art seeks public attention not out of egoism or a desire for recognition but as an inherent part of its nature. The work comes to life only when it resonates with others.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.”
Source: Marc Chagall: 1887-1985
“Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.”
Source: Marc Chagall: 1887-1985
“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.”
“Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.”