“As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.” ArtGrowsRealizingPerfectEventsArt IsAgingConceptionFluid Author:Robert Genn
“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.” DoeArtCultureRealizingAliveArt IsIdealsFunction Book:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
“I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.” ThinkingArtRealizingEmotionComfortableArt IsInnocentVulnerableRelinquishingRelinquishing Control Author:K. D. Lang
“The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.” TryingArtMightOpportunityEnergyProcessRealizingPerfectVisionCreativeOur LivesEmotionalArt IsBasesStressTransformationTensionBeing The BestDiscontentEquilibriumEmotional Energy Book:Trust the Process Source: Trust the Process
“Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard work and insignificance to make her mark on the art world. Part of her growth is in realizing - even embracing - that the process of art is more important than the product or the recognition.” WorldWantYearsDoeArtImportantBookHardCertainWaitingProcessGrowthRealizingProductsHard WorkArt IsMarkRecognitionImpatienceExhibitsIvyArt WorldThrough The YearsInsignificance Author:Liza Campbell
“I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it intensely until you felt like it was done, and then when you finished it, that was the final stage. I started to realize that that's not actually the completion of it. The final stage of any kind of art is to really lose control over it and let it affect other people. You can't control the effect that it has on people, but you hope that it has some sort of reaction. You just hope that they're not indifferent to it, you wanna make people feel something, whether it's love or hate.” PeopleFeelsKindLongArtIdeasDoneHateFeltRealizingLosesEffectsStageLong TimeArt IsLaborFinalsCome UpFinishedReactionsOver ItIndifferentCompletionLove Or Hate Author:Frank Iero
“Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're making work where I say, "You realize minimal art is 50 or 60 years old?" That's what I tell people to shock them. They just blanch.” PeopleYearsArtArtistRealizingBehindsArt IsBoringVideoContemporaryShockBubblesGood Movie Author:Alex Katz
“I have found that sharing this very intimate part of my life has been really powerful, because it has brought support from people I wasn't expecting. It's cathartic on many different levels. As I get older, I realize it's so much better to connect with people. It makes everything better to connect. Only connect. Why not have my art be about that? I think of it as moving from the third person to the first.” PeopleThinkingArtDifferentMovingRealizingPowerfulSupportArt IsIntimateExpectingReally Powerful Author:Tiffany Shlain
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” ArtTruthLyingArtistRealizingCreativityArt IsRealismFine ArtsTruthfulnessBeing An ArtistFamous ArtistInexorableArt And ArtistsArt And CreativityInspirational ArtistArtists And CreativityCreating ArtLies TruthFine ArtistsCubismPurpose Of ArtArt And LifeArtistic ProcessInspiration And ArtArt CriticArt MakingOriginal ArtLiterature And ArtCreation And Destruction Author:Pablo Picasso
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ArtTruthLyingRealizingArt Is Author:Pablo Picasso
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.” MenHumansKindMayPersonsArtEndsFormPurposeArtistRealizingHuman BeingsMankindHigherShapesArt IsAimInstrumentsMoodUnconsciousCollectivesCarrieFree WillPsychicsInnateMemories Dreams ReflectionsCollective Unconscious Author:Carl Jung
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” KnowsArtLyingArtistGivenRealizingArt IsConvinceTruthfulness Author:Pablo Picasso
“...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.” PeopleFeelsArtRealizingSadnessArt IsStranger Book:The Shadow Catcher: A Novel Source: The Shadow Catcher: A Novel