A Quotes
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“Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.”
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”
“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”
“Art without color would lose much of its purpose.”
Source: The Eye Of The Painter
“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
“Art without heart is craft.”
“Art without knowledge is nothing!”
“Art without purpose is decoration; life without art is hollow.”
“Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.”
“Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.”
“Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.”
“Art would be useless if the world were perfect.”
“Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp”
“Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”
“Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!”
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
“Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.”
“Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.”
“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”
Source: The Collector
“Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”
“Art's for art. Money's for pizza.”
“Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.”
“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.”
“Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.”
“Art's supposed to build logic structures.”
“Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.”
“Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.”
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
“Art's too long and life's too short.”
Source: Conversations with Grace Paley
“Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”
“Art's whatever you choose to frame.”
Source: Poems 1960-2000
“Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.”
“Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.”
“Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.”
“Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.”
“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.”
Source: Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
Source: Mission to America
“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”
“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”
“Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.”
“Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.”
“Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.”
Source: Letters of Anton Chekhov
“Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.”
Source: Letters of Anton Chekhov
“Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.”
“Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.”
“Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.”
“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.”
“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
Source: Works
“Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.”
Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell