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

Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

“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.”

Source: Trust the Process

“We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.”

Thinking Art Made Certain Suffering Humanity Vision Poet Politician Art Is Uncertainty Compassionate

Author:Sam Hamill

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit of a control freak, brutal when it comes to my art because I believe it's the best way of doing it, for me. My stubbornness has given us the chance to play in some amazing places that most people never would have been allowed to play in. If I don't put a value on my work, then nobody else is going to.”

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Author:Einar Selvik

“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”

Art Light Science Vision Art Is Analysis Awe Synthesis Seeing The Light

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.”

May Mean Art Soul Found Felt Powerful Vision Expression Masters Art Is Subtle Spells Vivid Indefinable

Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

“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.”

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Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.”

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Book:My Name Is Asher Lev

Source: My Name Is Asher Lev

“Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.”

Thinking Firsts Art Light Eye Vision Materials Art Is Awe

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.”