Best art-is & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.”

Ifs Feels Art Body Hands Seems Eye Together Artist Stuff Art Is Gestures Totality

Author:Frank Stella

“My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.”

Ifs Way Looks Art Ideas Different Whole Song Creating Art Is Down And Chaos Reactions Different Ways Upside Down Tornadoes Things Upside Down

Author:Marilyn Manson

“One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Art Stills Culture Forget Successful Fronts Fields Art Is Standing Contemporary Sane Engaging

Author:Tino Sehgal

“If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.”

Ifs Art Matter Feelings Nature Art Is Transformation Works Of Art Projection Kinship

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Art Faces Night Waiting Dark Wonder Clear Pure Art Is Evidence Ideals Strive Technique Superiors Staring Look Up Composition Unattainable

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.”

Ifs Men Art Action Values Teach Humility Art Is Tolerance Value Of Life Right Action Magnanimity Great Value

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.”

Ifs Art Beautiful Strong Beauty Grace Youth Truth Is Art Is Worthy Thee Grace Of God

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Play Form Artist Sound Knowing Taken Subjects Goes On Art Is Representation

Author:Plato

“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?”

Ifs Art Art Is

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.”

Ifs Art Style Son Art Is Concerned Imitation Grandson

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”

Ifs Long Art Religion Holy Art Is Miserable

Author:Robertson Davies

“Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.”

Ifs Art Lying Behinds Divine Art Is Inner Beauty

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.”

Ifs Want Art Art Is

Author:Damien Hirst

“I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.”

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Author:David Walker

“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”

Ifs Needs Art Emotion Art Is

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!”

Ifs Art Age Young Poet Art Is Aging

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.”

Ifs Thinking Years Art Artist Rooms Business Company Careers Art Is Artistic Ran Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Jack White

“I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.”

Ifs Want Looks Art Ideas Ends Speak Pieces Art Is Planning No Idea Imposing

Author:Nick Bantock

Ifs Writing Art Running Art Is Profession Climbing Toilets Pipe Plumber Sewers Plumbing Wrenches

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.”

Ifs Art Challenges Five Painting Art Is Down And Frustration Frustrated Frustrating

Author:Robert Bateman

“I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Wish Difficult Democracy Goes On Art Is Add Democratic Obligation Versus Elitism

Author:Geoffrey Hill

“If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.”

Ifs Art Poverty Willing Art Is Being True Great Art Boast

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.”

Ifs Art Games Art Is Mirrors

Author:Marge Piercy

“Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it... if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.”

People Ifs World Want Art Spirit Spirituality Speak Products Art Is Addresses Farms

Author:Shary Boyle

“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.”

Ifs World Has Beens Art Moments Might Song Energy Language Poverty Mines Art Is Raises Tyranny Naked Destroyed Rhythm Dust Staff Strokes Brushes Mud Stolen Shields Artifacts Brush Strokes

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.”

Ifs Way Believe Art Important I Believe Can Do Imagination Vision Art Is Rely Sensibility

Author:Mary Oliver

“The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.”

Ifs Art Character Artist Art Is Originals Works Of Art Infusion

Author:Austin O'Malley

“If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.”

People Ifs Believe Art I Can Facts Running I Believe Enjoy One Thing Art Is Works Of Art Amusement

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.”

Ifs Wells May Art Spiritual Artist Quality Painting Art Is Depth Insight Drunk Guarantees

Author:Millard Sheets

“That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.”

People Ifs Men Humans Art Art Is Mere Accidents Human Life

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.”

Ifs Art Use Art Is Concerned Denial

Book:Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Source: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

“If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.”

Ifs Art Action Form Environment Painting Art Is Works Of Art Blueprints New Environment

Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Art Literature Enlightenment Art Is Decided Regard Entertainment Decades Transcendent

Author:Richard Condon

“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.”

Ifs World Way Mind Humans Children Art Dream Common Limits Draws Art Is Logic Common Sense Immortal Works Of Art

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.”

Ifs Art Two Ends Knowing Plans Danger Becoming Art Is Built Experiments Crafts Obsessed Experimental Science

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.”

People Ifs Art Art Is Life And Time

Book:Paintings and drawings

Source: Paintings and drawings

“Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.”

Ifs Art Special Ordinary Art Is Cooking Sauce

Book:Lethaby, a Continuing Presence: Seven Essays Taken from Form in Civilization

Source: Lethaby, a Continuing Presence: Seven Essays Taken from Form in Civilization

“We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Mean Art Produce Creating Art Is Criticism Cooking Good Things Missions Artistic Something New Creating Something

Author:Ferran Adria

“If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.”

Ifs Art Draws Art Is Stones Within Reach

Book:The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

Source: The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

“If the art is concealed, it succeeds.”

Ifs Art Philosophy History Succeed Art Is Concealed

Author:Ovid

“Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.”

Ifs Art Streets Crime Please Photography Art Is Forgiving Forgive Me God Forgives Street Photography God Forgive Me

Author:Thomas Leuthard

“If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Art Real Missing Judging Communication Art Is Storytelling Cinema Ambiguity Missing Out

Author:Ben Wheatley

“Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.”

Ifs Way Persons Art Ends Enjoy Levels Air Art Is Luck Disappointment Breathe Unhappy Recognition Frustrated Embarrassment Accommodations Gravy Pollen

Author:Joan Rivers

“Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.”

Ifs Art Sometimes Past Energy Loses Forget Art Is Claims Museums Circuits Past Present Past Present And Future New Work Working Now

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.”

Ifs Feels Art Important Left One Thing Art Is Japan Works Of Art Left Out

Book:The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

“Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.”

Ifs Men World Giving Art Matter Achievement Eternal Art Is Praise Accomplished Good Work Verdict

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)

“I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it’ll affect someone else.”

Ifs Feels Art Ends Shows Lasts Results Stage Like You Art Is Reactions Hopefully End Results

Author:Frank Iero

“I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.”

Ifs Thinking Art Joy Careers Duty Amount Art Is Small Amounts

Author:Sarah Kay

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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