“The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.” ArtHighestArt IsTriumphPresentationTruest Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis
“One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.” ArtInspirationWaterCenturyArt IsRemainsCellsChineseTriumphTorture20th CenturyDrowningDemonstrationIconsHelplessnessPrimalDisorientationHoudiniPrimal Fear Author:Criss Angel
“The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.” IfsArtStoriesPhotographyArt IsHistoricalPhotographTriumphMonumentPictorialLiterary Art Author:Clement Greenberg
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.” WorldArtDreamLyingFictionArt IsChaosSpreadCelebrateTriumph Author:John Cheever
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.” WorldArtChoicesFictionVisionDangerExerciseArt IsChaosAccomplishTriumphPerceiveMistakenSelectionVigilant Book:Collected Stories Source: Collected Stories