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“Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.”

Art Feelings Failing Mankind Civilization Art Is Aspect Linked Urgent Pulse Staples Signs Of Life

Author:Jamake Highwater

“All good art is abstract.”

Art Art Is Abstract Good Art

Author:John Newman

“The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.”

Art Use Light Painting Art Is Built Window Temples Significance Sculpture Borrowing

Author:J. G. Holland

“The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.”

Art Art Is Discovery Photographer

Author:Andre Kertesz

“The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.”

Art Artist Certain Rights Art Is Fundamentals Critics Judged Submit Suggestions Academy Bullied Patron Tribunals Fundamental Rights

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.”

People Want Giving Art Problem Research Art Is Contemporary Bother Contemporary Art

Author:Michael Scott

“You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.”

Art Might Lasts Movement Art Is Series Wave Arguing Contemporary Avant Garde Contemporary Art

Author:Michael Scott

“Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?”

Doe Art Fate Materials Art Is Management Manipulation

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.”

Art Reality Purpose Existence Style Offers Models Art Is Function Pace Desirable

Author:Peter Schmidt

“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.”

Mean Art Soul Ends Difficult Imagination Students Art Is Fundamentals Technique

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.”

Art Views Risk Art Is Point Of View

Author:Jean Helion

“Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.”

Art Art Is Sublime Clue Entrees

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.”

Looks Art Different Dream Lying Art Is Capacity Mirrors Expensive Scandalous

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.”

Art Knowing Art Is Application Something Better

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.”

Art Happens Asks Art Is

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Most art is just surface noise.”

Art Art Is Criticism Surface Noise

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.”

Knows Needs Art Language Wall Art Is Labels Good Art

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.”

Art Art Is

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.”

Art Artist Art Is Rap Crafts Mediocrity Mediocre Good Art

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.”

Doe Art Power Effects Communication Art Is Relate

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.”

Ifs Writing Art Running Art Is Profession Climbing Toilets Pipe Plumber Sewers Plumbing Wrenches

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.”

Art Reality Art Is Conform

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.”

Art Matter Reality Language Materials Art Is Adjusting

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is there for nourishment, not explication.”

Art Art Is Satisfaction Nourishment

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.”

Art Values Lost Differences Theory Art Is Analysis Butterfly Pins Meadows Fluttering Like A Butterfly

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.”

Art Art Is Swimming Underwater Blindfolds

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.”

Art Facts Quality Art Is Concepts Attributes Oxymoron Articulation Supposition Conceptual Art

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.”

Writing Art Art Is

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.”

Art Grows Realizing Perfect Events Art Is Aging Conception Fluid

Author:Robert Genn

“Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.”

May Art Soul Worship Illusion Art Is Infinite Lifetime Goddess Intrigue Fickle

Author:Robert Genn

“Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.”

Art Form Art Is Ultimate Heal Forms Of Love

Author:Robert Genn

“Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.”

Needs Humans Art Character Quality Acceptance Art Is Competition Landscape Quests Contests Connoisseur Forerunners

Author:Robert Genn

“Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.”

Art Fashion Products Art Is Critics Works Of Art Transient

Author:Robert Genn

“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

“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”

Giving Wells Art Soul Ends Pain Joy Courses Levels Common Brain Known Fantasy Development Art Is Profession Personal Development Pursuit Common Sense Ugliness Diploma

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

“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.”

Art Form Growth Memories Vision Path Shapes Art Is Breathe Exploration Contracts Recollection New Paths New Vision Armenia

Author:Arshile Gorky

“Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.”

Mind Art Decision Creative Conscious Art Is Finals Abstract Unconscious Conscious Mind Abstract Art

Author:Lawren Harris

“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

Knows Art Made Character Effort Situation Accepting Greater Acceptance Ordinary Art Is Strive Everyday Incline

Author:Lawren Harris

“Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.”

Men Art Soul Growth Essentials Training Art Is Contrary Distraction Amusement

Author:Lawren Harris

“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”

People World Art Ideas Beautiful Form Joy Spirit Perfect Results Creative Clear Records Adventure Higher Pure Elements Eternal Art Is Plato Joyous Creative Spirit

Author:Lawren Harris

“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”

Art Form Three Perfect Emotion Balance Art Is Function Stress Intellect Primaries Dimensions Strain Living Things Reduction Miniatures Microcosm Perfect Balance Three Dimensions

Author:Lawren Harris

“We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.”

Art Would Be Art Is Tradition

Author:Lawren Harris

“Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.”

Kind Art Language Art Is All Kinds Plumbing

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!”

People Art School My Own Pieces Taught Art Is Collections Collectors Nigeria Exhibitions Guinea

Author:Robert Bateman

“Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.”

Ifs Art Challenges Five Painting Art Is Down And Frustration Frustrated Frustrating

Author:Robert Bateman

“As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.”

Art Stills Bigs Age Art Is Experiments

Author:E. J. Hughes

“In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!”

Art War Moments Military Art Is Great Art

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Art is made by the alone for the alone.”

Art Made Art Is

Author:Luis Barragan

“Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.”

World Way Art Inspiration Motivation Perception Art Is Practicals Changing The World Analogies Practical Things

Author:JR

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