Best art & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.”

“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.”

“Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.”

Heart Art Soul Speak Language Heart To Heart

Author:Ana Tzarev

“The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.”

Art Important Language Activity Art Is Universal Importance

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.”

World Children Art Desire Speak Language Natural Genius Draws Art Is Treated Innate

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.”

Art Use Able Language Teach Teaching Use Of Language

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.”

Ifs Mind Art Form Language Conscious Connections Logic Conscious Mind Volition

Author:Albert Einstein

“Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.”

Kind Art Language Art Is Banality

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.”

Art Language Stuff Childhood Advertising Visuals Visual Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.”

Feels Art Real Form Language Understanding Subjects Painting Depends Importance Pictorial

Book:A Roger Fry Reader

Source: A Roger Fry Reader

“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

“Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.”

Needs Art Names Language American Indian

Author:Jamake Highwater

“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

“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 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 advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.”

Art Reason Facts Language Secret Advice Rely Abstract Skepticism Documents Decipher

Author:Max Born

“A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.”

Art Today Language Humorous Available Programming Assembly Programming Languages Pascal

Author:Raymond Simard

“No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.”

People Art Facts Language Assuming Visuals Betray

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.”

Ifs World Has Beens Art Moments Might Song Energy Language Poverty Mines Art Is Raises Tyranny Naked Destroyed Rhythm Dust Staff Strokes Brushes Mud Stolen Shields Artifacts Brush Strokes

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.”

Art Important Artist Language Realism Realist Alphabet Art Education

Author:Igor Babailov

“Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.”

Long Art Language Information Nonverbal

Author:Betty Edwards

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