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“Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.”

Ifs Way Long Art Creative Draws Art Is Essence Limitation Necks Giraffe

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”

Ifs Want Art Said Lying Art Is Telling The Truth What If

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”

Ifs Men World Looks Art Would Be Artist Born Perfect Art Is Pressure Harmony Ill Useless Not Perfect

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”

Ifs Art Certain Theory Art Is Boring Irritating

Author:Edward Gorey

“What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful”

Ifs Thinking Doe Art Christian Beautiful Artist Certain Religious Subjects Painting Art Is Witness Justification Biblical Good Art Halos Beautiful Art Jeremiah Bearing Witness Christian Art

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.”

Ifs Trying Art Book Self Hard Hero Art Is Distinction Meaningless Portraits Strain Projection Persona Lyrical Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”

Ifs Men Feels Art Lasts Memories Duty Happenings Art Is Tasks Unhappy Symbols

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

Source: Warhol Memoir

“Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.”

“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”

Ifs Mean Art Real Whole Hands Lying Hard Work Morality Art Is Clean Dinner Cooks Kitchen Soil Cleaners Epoch Such Is Life

Book:Old Goriot: Classic French Literature

Source: Old Goriot: Classic French Literature

“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”

Ifs Should Art Dangerous Art Is Prepared Ill Contact Chaste

Author:Pablo Picasso

“How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”

Ifs Art Remember Rich Art Is Lonely Empty

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?”

Ifs Way Humans Art Desire Lost Human Beings Grief Behinds Existence Elements Art Is Angry Love Life Desire Love

Author:Adrienne Rich

“For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.”

People Ifs Art Artist Rich Art Is Valuable Worthwhile

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”

Ifs Art Made Next Tree Design Objects Painting Judging Flower Art Is Criticism Critics Clash Art History Art Making

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.”

Ifs Art Self Music Expression Personality Art Is Jazz Musical Self Expression

Author:Bennie Wallace

“If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.”

Ifs Art Matter Party Fine Taste Art Is Appreciation Subjective Fine Arts Art Appreciation

Author:Michael Audain

“Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.”

“What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.”

Ifs Should Doe Art Artist Left Products Activity Art Is Studios Conclusion Left Alone

Author:Bruce Nauman

“I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.”

Ifs Wells Long Art Made Stills Jobs Faces Careers Art Is Ugly If I Could Unfortunate Beard Ugly Face

Author:Camille Claudel

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