A Quotes
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“Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.”
“Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.”
“Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?”
“Art thou so full of glory that no Eye
Hath strength thy shining Rays once to behold?
And is thy splendid Throne erect so high?
As, to approach it, can no earthly mould.
How full of glory then must thy Creator be?
Who gave this bright light luster unto thee:
Admir’d, ador’d for ever be that Majesty.”
“Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.”
“Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.”
“Art to be art must soothe.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Art, to me, has become more than a mere medium for self-expression, but above all, transcendence. It unites me with the Sublime.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.”
“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.”
Source: Writings on Art
“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.”
Source: Writings on Art
“Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.”
“Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.”
“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.”
“Art too is just a way of living.”
“Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Art transcends politics this weekend.”
“Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”
“Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.”
“Art unmakes the world made by work.”
Source: Having and Being Had
“Art upsets, science reasures.”
“Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.”
“Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.”
“Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.”
“Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.”
“Art versus humanity is not the question, Ulysses. One doesn’t exist without the other. Art is the antidote.”
Source: Still Life
“Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in the world and realizing that it was just my lot to be a person and to live in the world. See, the normal world dissolves in these experiences, and you realize that it is just an illusion. But, inevitably, I just kept landing back in the middle of it.”
“Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.”
“Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.”
“Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.”
“Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.”
Source: The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves
“Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.”
“Art was how artists were able to breathe.”
Source: LA on LSD
“Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.”
Source: On Music and Musicians
“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an evolving ‘aesthetic sense’, as some writers suggest.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.”
“Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.”
“Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.”
“Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could be for sale. But we had very few buyers. I think it was Michael Heizer who said that the point was to have a bigger canvas, and I've used that expression quite a bit. But I was thinking today that a canvas has boundaries; it has limit to it. And for earthwork, it was the very openness and feeling that there were no boundaries that made it so exciting.”
“Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.”
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Art will always be art.”
“Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.”
“Art will never be able to exist without nature.”
“Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.”