I Quotes
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“In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”
“In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.”
“In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”
“In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.”
“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.”
Source: Selected Non-fictions
“In art one idea is as good as another.”
Source: De Kooning: A Retrospective
“In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.”
“In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.”
“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”
“In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.”
“In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.”
“In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.”
“In Art, since the end of the 20th century, it is not work that pays, it is the nerve.
En Art, depuis la fin du XXème, ce n’est pas le travail qui paie, c’est le culot.
Extrait de : A livre ouvert.”
Source: Knife Paintings: Lozengist Movement
“In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.”
“In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.”
Source: Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943
“In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.”
“In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.”
“In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists”
Source: The writings of a savage
“In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.”
“In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.”
“In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.”
“In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.”
“In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.”
“In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.”
“In art, [Tolstoy] articulates with almost prophetic brilliance the elements that combine to make and keep women inferior, all of them originating, in his view, in sexual intercourse, because sexual intercourse requires objectification and therefore is exploitation. In life, he blamed and hated
Sophie [his wife], feeling antagonism and repulsion, because he wanted to fuck her and did fuck her.”
Source: Intercourse
“In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.”
“In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.”
“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.”
“In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.”
“In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.”
“In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.”
Source: The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
“In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.”
Source: Fernando Botero
“In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.”
“In art, everyone who plays wins.”
“In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.”
“In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.”
“In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.”
“In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.”
“In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.”
Source: My Idea of Education
“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
Source: Essays
“In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.”
“In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.”
“In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.”
Source: Willem de Kooning
“In art, practice always comes before theory.”
“In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.”
“In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.”
Source: The Rebel
“In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.”
Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography
“In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.”