“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.” KnowsArtMadeCharacterEffortSituationAcceptingGreaterAcceptanceOrdinaryArt IsStriveEverydayIncline Author:Lawren Harris
“I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.” BelieveArtFormArtistI BelieveAcceptingArt IsOriginalsSpeciesPunishmentExplorationTransgression Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.” ArtPoetryAcceptingUniqueModelsLowsOrdinaryArt IsFunctionExtraordinaryCommonplace Author:Rosalind E. Krauss
“I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.” ArtSchoolLevelsAcceptingArt IsPerformingPerforming ArtsAccept MeScholastics Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.” ArtPhilosophyAcceptingStruggleJudgmentArt IsInternalsPlatoInternal Struggle Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.” ArtI CanFactsHumanityAcceptingPaintingArt IsConceptsSizeExpandingConceptual Art Author:Lawrence Weiner
“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.” KnowsLongArtGamesFictionAcceptingHappenedModernArt IsNotionRejectsRomantic LoveTrophiesModern Art Book:The Painted Word Source: The Painted Word
“Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.” HeartDoeArtSidesFictionAcceptingColdArt IsFinest Author:John Banville
“This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.” ArtPhilosophyWould BeLiteratureProcessChallengesEffortAcceptingPracticeKnowingTeacherTeachingStudentsConsciousArt IsOvercomingConvictionEducationalLimitationSensitive Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage