A Quotes
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“Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.”
“Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.”
“Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.”
“Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.”
“Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.”
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“Art starts alone - and convinces society later.”
“Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.”
“Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.”
“Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.”
“Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring.”
Source: Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
“Art supersedes knowledge written in books.
Art is the muse.
Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four
“Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.”
“Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!”
“Art take guts.”
Source: None Shall Sleep
“Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.”
“Art takes nature as its model.”
“Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“Art takes what in life is an accidental pleasure and tries to repeat and prolong it.”
“Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.”
“Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.”
“Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.”
“Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.”
“Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.”
“Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.”
Source: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
“Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.”
Source: W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais
“Art tells a story; it can change people's minds or reaffirm their beliefs.”
“Art tells a story; it can change people’s minds or reaffirm their beliefs. I’ve spent my life worrying about saying the wrong thing. I can’t get art wrong.”
Source: Daydream
“Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.”
“Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.”
“Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.”
“Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.”
“Art that is based on lie, is no art.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.”
“Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.”
“Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.”
“Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.”
“Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.”
“Art that you produce alone is only art. Art that you produce together is a reality.”
“Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.”
“Art: The un-yet is”
“ART
The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. I wish that I could touch you and be sure that it was the right thing to do. I only want to touch you briefly. Just once so that you will know. We are flesh and blood and full of faults. But we are also full of warmth. The world is full of confusion but there is compassion in its midst. communication via simple touch can transmit so much of us in just one minute. Like a painting or a piece of music. I want to touch your soul. I only wish I could be sure it was the right thing to do.”
Source: SPAN
“Art theft gave a guy an appetite.”
Source: The Medusa Plot
“Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. Its products serve as a retarded correction of perception braked by the system of conventions and stereotypes that stabilize society. They create a slightly updated system which, eventually assimilated by history, will require a new system and so on without end. Art objects serve as points of identification alienated from the consumer, requiring more sympathy than empathy.”
“Art thou a friend to Roderick?”
Source: The Lady of the Lake and Vision of Don Roderick: Complete in One Volume
“Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?”
“Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?”