“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.” IfsFeelsArtBodyHandsSeemsEyeTogetherArtistStuffArt IsGesturesTotality Author:Frank Stella
“I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you can love art how you wish to be loved. And I'd say art is a lifeline to the rest of us - we are out here. You are not alone. There is nothing about you that scares us. There is nothing unlovable about you, either.” WritingArtSeemsWishArt IsScareNot AloneLifelinesUnlovable Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.” ThinkingShouldArtMadeFactsSeemsPleasureDespairArt IsContradictionAlways Believe Author:David Hockney
“One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.” ArtSeemsArt IsCurrentsContemporaryContemporary Art Author:Anish Kapoor
“I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.” ArtIdeasCharacterSeemsSeaDangerousObjectsFineArt IsSailFine Arts Author:Grayson Perry
“People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.” PeopleKnowsArtFactsSeemsStrongGrowthKnownArt IsEnglandPressesSpreadLondonAwakeBritainCentreGreat Britain Author:Edward Elgar
“So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.” LittlesArtImportantSeemsQualityExpressionConsciousArt IsImportanceIntellectSubconsciousPsychologist Author:Edward Hopper
“That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.” ArtSeemsArtistViewsAttitudeArt IsInterpretationWorks Of ArtCommentArrogantSubjective Author:Tyrone Guthrie
“Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.” PeopleThinkingWritingArtMadeStoriesSeemsYoungLife IsStuffResultsColorSpringArt IsAddLocalsObservationLuxuryHollowFullnessRichnessRichness Of Life Book:Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.” ArtStillsCountrySeemsLyingPassionSpecialDyingBenefitsArt IsOrganizationPatientAll TimeGrantsProvidenceSensibilityShieldsInvincibleContemplative Author:George Sand
“Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.” TryingArtSeemsArt IsConnectionsAddAlways TryingJuxtaposition Author:Pat Metheny
“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingArtIdeasUseSeemsSpiritualCultureStrongLevelsTalkingEmotionalReaderHorrorIntellectualLowsArt IsDrivingReactionsPornographyComponentsSympatheticEvokeVisceralHighs And LowsHigh ArtVolvo Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.” KindMeanArtMatterRealitySeemsAgeSpiritCoursesGivenVoiceEventsGeniusDaughterArt IsIdealsRaisesRemoveInquiryPrescriptionsNeediness Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German
“I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.” PeopleThinkingArtSeemsAnswersArt IsAsking Author:PJ Harvey
“A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so jibing, and they're clashing. But they all seem to be working in their own domain. Whereas back in the '60s, man, it was kind of a dull world. It was a vital world. But it was kind of contained and not too recognized by the public. Now art is absolutely recognized by the public.” MenWorldKindArtDifferentSeemsStyleArt IsPainterAbstractDullDomainDifferent Styles Author:Edward Ruscha