A Quotes
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“Art shackled is no art at all.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming
“Art should be a place of hope.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.”
“Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.”
“Art should be born from the materials.”
Source: Jean Dubuffet
“Art should be concerned more with life than with art.”
Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
“Art should be created for life, not for the museum”
“Art should be for sale. The artist should not.”
“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)
“Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.”
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.”
“Art should be on the side of humanity.”
“Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.”
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination, and encourages people to go further.”
Source: [ Keith Haring Journals (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) By Haring, Keith ( Author ) Paperback 2010 ]
“Art should be studied, not worshipped. Artworks should be preserved that they may help us, not that they may amaze and confound us. Above all, we should study them with the purpose of learning from them.”
“Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.”
Source: I, Juan de Pareja
“Art should be waged like war.”
“Art should become as one with its surroundings.”
“Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.”
Source: What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
“Art should communicate with as many people as possible.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Art should create an experience.”
“Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”
“Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.”
“Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.”
Source: Deadly Sting
“Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.”
“Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.”
“Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.”
“Art should never be popular.”
“Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.”
“Art should never try to be popular.”
“Art should not have to be a certain way.”
“Art should offend people because art should challenge people.”
“Art should return to its roots, to cosmology, to rite, and to ceremony. The religious nature of art is its true meaning. Modern art's commitment to "emotion" and "feeling" or to abstract principles of design is, by Pleistocene standards, a sacrilegious act, just as narcotics belong not in a recreational but in a religious setting. In most small-scale societies there is regular dialogue on divinatory and dream experience that gets translated into art.”
Source: Coming Home to the Pleistocene
“Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.”
“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”
Source: Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work
“Art should stimulate.”
“Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.”
Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
“Art shouldn't be about self. The paradox is that art is necessarily created by a Self, and will necessarily draw some measure of attention or consideration to the artist. But the aim ought to be for the thing to draw attention, ultimately, to something other than the self.”
“Art shouldn't be necessarily done for an audience. Sometimes creating for yourself can be equally rewarding.”
“Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.”
“Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.”
“Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere. It's how you use your eyes. It's about the enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly not for any one group of people.”
“Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.”
“Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.”
“Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.”
“Art simply can’t be stopped.”
“Art sincerely obeys a mind,who is willing to tame a Wild Stone to mould a desired Shape.”
“Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.”
“Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.”