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

“How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.”

Humans Art Self Evil Answers Existence Art Is Claims Bounds Backgrounds Secular Human Existence

Author:Yann Martel

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.”

Knows Art Different Self Artist Levels Mystery Influence Balance Limits Art Is Tolerance Pursuit Delicate Different Levels Scotch Assertiveness Personal Limits

Author:Robert Genn

“Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.”

Art Self Risk Sorrow Art Is Driven Experimentation

Author:Robert Genn

“Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.”

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Book:Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist

Source: Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist

“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.”

Art Self Reality Social Situation Communication Art Is Connections Sufficient Distortion Corrections Self Sufficient Modification Unendurable

Author:Jean Tinguely

“It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.”

Art Self Purpose Expression Glory Art Is Sake Threatening Glory Of God Self Expression True Purpose Purpose Of Art

Author:Philip Graham Ryken

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

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Author:Jacques Maritain

“Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.”

Art Self Form Artist Values Dies Creation Art Is Holiness Paradox Works Of Art Affirmation Blunders Rebuttal

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.”

Art War Self Artist Force Art Is Warrior Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.”

Children Art Self Values Process Ability Creativity Expression Skills Creating Art Is Concerned Discovering Exploring Soar Self Expression

Author:MaryAnn F. Kohl

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

“Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.”

Writing Mind Art Self Emotion Art Is Worthiness

Author:Rachel Cusk

“The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self.”

Art Self Poetry Purpose Order Consciousness Ego Art Is Patterns Great Art Imagery Framework Transcending

Book:The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Source: The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

“And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.”

Art Soul Self Love Is Sacrifice Late Art Is Too Late Self Control

Author:Alice Duer Miller

“Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.”

Way Giving Art Made Self Would Be Used Order Culture Views Masters Art Is Point Of View One Way New Ways New Cultures

Author:Marianne von Werefkin

“When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.”

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Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness”

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Author:J. W. N. Sullivan

“Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.”

Way Mean Art Self Art Is Discovery Self Discovery Girlfriend

Author:Malcolm Morley

“My Instagram has personal things, like pictures of my home, but generally it's my voice, and that's a public thing. Using my Instagram posts in my art is not about taking my personal Instagram and making it public; it's about understanding and challenging the notion of these free platforms that encourage self-promotion and understanding what they are technically and culturally.”

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Author:Frances Stark

“Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.”

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Author:Leonard Peikoff

“Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."”

Thinking Art Self Desire Artist Grows Groups Influence Demand Art Is Evidence Empowerment Stronger Historical Isolation Contracts Overwhelming Temper Proficiency Bunk

Author:Paul Gauguin

“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.”

May Art Important Self Lying Song Steps Practice Art Is Roots Function Instruments Sacred Entertainment Recognition Communion Dance Steps

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.”

“The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have an artful way of approaching them. You do a dance for them, you get them to imagine being interconnected, and to imagine being free of their suffering, and not so self involved, through art that draws them out. Then you, and they, are all established in what's called a Buddha-verse, or Buddha-land”

Way Mean Art Self Problem Suffering Imagine Land Involved Draws Art Is Bliss Freak Verses Blast Being Free Interconnected

Author:Robert Thurman

“All art is self-portraiture.”

Art Self Art Is Portraiture

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.”

Mind Art Self Inspiration Given Expression Conscious Art Is Labels Agency Self Expression

Author:Norman Lindsay

“Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.”

Art Self Hands Motivational Form Expression Art Is Legs Martial Arts Inner Self

Author:Donnie Yen

“My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings”

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Author:Edvard Munch

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”

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Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”

Writing Art Self Acting Consciousness Enemy Painting Art Is Self Consciousness

Book:On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays

Source: On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays

“Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.”

Art Self Individual Expression Art Is Expressive

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.”

Art Made Self Order Demand Art Is Forgetful

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“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

“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”

Art Self Artist Audience Creative Modern Emotional Intellectual Art Is Intercourse Seducing Creative Art Pseudo Unemotional Pseudo Intellectuals

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.”

Persons Art Self Whole Christian Expression Conscious Art Is Whole Life Vehicle Evangelism Self Conscious Totality Whole Person Christian Art

Book:Art & the Bible: Two Essays

Source: Art & the Bible: Two Essays

“Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.”

People Giving Writing Believe Art Important Self Young Voice Drama Art Is Self Worth Encouraging Sense Of Self

Author:Michael Morpurgo

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

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Author:Bennie Wallace

“The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.”

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Author:Mrinalini Sarabhai

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