“We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.” ThinkingPersonsArtPastToo MuchArt IsGermanyConventionsConventional Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker
“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.” ArtStillsReasonUsedVoiceBeautyUnited StatesToo MuchHavensArt IsCapacityEarsHotelStationsAdmirationPalacesSplendorRailwayMagnificenceSmall VoiceRailway Station Book:The Bent Twig Source: The Bent Twig
“I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.” PeopleFirstsArtShowsLife IsFeltToo MuchArt IsFirst TimeTownsPaintChinaSentencesDrawingInnocentCanvasPortraitsConformSmall TownSmall Town LifeOverreaction Author:Alice Neel
“Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.” ThinkingArtIdeasAgeYoungArtistToo MuchArt IsOld AgeViewpoints Author:Laura Riding
“All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.” ArtToo MuchWrittenArt IsLettersSickOneselfOur TimeGood Art Author:W. H. Auden
“I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.” WorldWantFeelsBelieveArtI CanMovingUsedFunI BelieveEnjoyToo MuchNicePaintingArt IsDon't BelieveI Believe InDrawingNeighborhoodNervesTouchingShedMeditatingRenounceChuckDrawing And Painting Author:Jim Woodring
“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingMindArtUsedArtistNextVoiceLevelsCreativityTechnologyToo MuchDangerRight NowReflectionArt IsMachinesHip HopHipsHopsEfficientNext Level Author:Del tha Funkee Homosapien
“Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.” PeopleThinkingArtImportantAblePainBeautifulLinesToo MuchCostDrawsArt IsDefinedNormalcy Author:Paul Dalio
“Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.” ArtToo MuchArt IsCopiesAbstraction Book:Paul Gauguin Source: Paul Gauguin