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“In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.”

Art Said Humanity Compassion And Love Generosity Peter

Author:Gregory Peck

“He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.”

Art Would Be Joy Turns Natural Painting Delight Painter Compulsion

Author:Albrecht Durer

“I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.”

Knows Art Artist Position Critics I've Learned Activist Dislike

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.”

Ifs Art Flower Theory Bears Plant Fruit Practicals Soil Leaves And Flowers

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.”

Art Form Classical Art

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.”

Giving Littles Art Whole Universe Views Works Of Art Ingenuity Cosmology

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”

World Want Love Life Feels Trying Art Happiness Young Felt Bits Space Teacher Fans Retirement Freak Devoted Aspire Feels Just

Author:Lady Gaga

“Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.”

Needs Writing Art Film Form Pieces Rocks Painting Paper Picks Sticks Pens Pencils Sculpture Chalk

Author:Forest Whitaker

“I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.”

Art Two School Acting Teacher Teaching Meditating Art Teacher

Author:Forest Whitaker

“I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.”

Way Art Dream Effort Pieces Fans Inspire Walking Ambition All Time My Ambition

Author:Lady Gaga

“Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.”

Art Hope Causes Situation Limits Findings Originals Temporary Misfortunes Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.”

Men Art Reality School Understanding White Struggle Seeing England Indian Formal White Man Starks Pierce Schooled Baffled Stark Reality

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.”

People Art Feelings Talking People Talking

Author:Peter Gabriel

“Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.”

Art Language Communication Art Is Instruments

Book:Jean Dubuffet: Two Decades, 1943-1962 : November 1 - December 31, 1983

Source: Jean Dubuffet: Two Decades, 1943-1962 : November 1 - December 31, 1983

“Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.”

Way Mind Art Eye Addresses Primitive

Book:Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery

Source: Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery

“Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.”

People Art Activity Extraordinary Peculiar Extraordinary Things

Book:Art and a Changing Civilisation

Source: Art and a Changing Civilisation

“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.”

World Art Ideas Artist Situation Study Students University Museums Academic Art Students

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

Art Ideas Artist Business Ugly Selling Commodity Businessman

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

Art Spiritual Sides Business Art Is

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”

Littles Art Moments Lying Artist Fall Audience Creating Falling In Love Tiny Live In The Moment Slides

Author:Lady Gaga

“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”

Way Long Art Novel Taste Standards Art Is Innovation Critics Conviction Significant One Way Firm Provocation Standards Set

Author:Leo Steinberg

“The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.”

Doe Art Made Today Novel Ready Taste Assuming Critics Yesterday Manifestation Reserves Criteria

Book:Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

Source: Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

“Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.”

Art Soul Body Today Forever Drink Immortality Live Forever Food And Drink Art And Music

Author:Julie Andrews

“One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.”

Art Play Pieces

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.”

Art Reason Interest Simple Art Is Experts Not Interested

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.”

Art Two Philosophy Two Things Lacking

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.”

Art Teaching Models Drawing Clarity Ecstasy Engineering Metaphysics Neutrality Uncontrollable Sainthood Drivel

Author:George Grosz

“It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol ‘Marilyn’; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.”

“I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.”

Way Art Different My Own Attention Mistake Study Achieve Directors Paid Cameras Shooting Different Ways Art History Studying Art

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.”

Art Philosophy Band Mutual Cooperation Fanatics Fanaticism Fervor

Book:Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of the Founding of the Commonwealth

Source: Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of the Founding of the Commonwealth

“Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!”

Ifs Art Age Young Poet Art Is Aging

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Waiting is one of the great arts.”

Art Waiting Self Control Great Art

Book:The Tiger in the Smoke

Source: The Tiger in the Smoke

“The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.”

Source: Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters

“Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.”

Has Beens Art Used Born Modern Source Art Is Photographer Painter Modernism Copyright Modern Art Upheaval

Book:EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

“If you want to change your art, change your habits.”

Ifs Want Art Habit

Author:Clement Greenberg

“I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.”

Ifs Art Numbers Habit Studios Jargon

Author:Clement Greenberg

“Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.”

Art Can Do Successful Sacrifice Effects Essentials Triumph Poetry Is Verses Explicit

Author:Clement Greenberg

“Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.”

Art Used Attention Mediums Realistic Modernism

Book:The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969

Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969

“It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.”

Art Values Quality Absolutes Moved Visuals Aesthetic Sheer Concentrating Decoration Visual Art Autonomous Beholder

Book:Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

Source: Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

“Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.”

Art Ideas Reality Art Is Our Time Continuity Unthinkable Rupture

Book:The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969

Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969

“One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.”

Art Recognition Hares Tortoises

Book:Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations

Source: Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations

“It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.”

People Want Wells Looks Persons Art Fine Degrees Ordinary Criticism Ordinary People Statues Fine Arts Arts Degrees

Author:Ken Livingstone

“Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.”

Art Life Is Interpretation Life Is Like

Book:Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

Source: Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

“If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.”

Ifs Art Artist Teach Greater Pieces Achieve Elements Achievement Increase Unity Variety Complexity Works Of Art Satisfying

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.”

Art Enough Play Lost Expression Worthy Artistic Insecurity Good Enough Childlike Disconnected Artistic Expression

Author:Elisabeth Shue

“A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.”

Looks Art Mystery Expression Metaphor Critical Paradox Discourse Syntax Tautology

Author:Denis Donoghue

“The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.”

Art Real Reality Break Exercise Monopoly Defining

Book:The old moderns: essays on literature and theory

Source: The old moderns: essays on literature and theory

“As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.”

Ifs Kind Art Artist Difficult Study Ambition

Book:American Letters: 1927-1947

Source: American Letters: 1927-1947

“Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.”

Art Made Jokes Cult Ugliness

Author:Roger Scruton

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