Best art & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.”

Giving Humans Children Art Life Is Lying Names Building Our Children Beach Your Children Aesthetic Sophisticated Being Human Humanistic Sandcastles

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.”

World Way Art Facts Problem Christian Lying Culture Community Christianity Optimism Core Visuals Rejects Naive Outlook Protestants Art World Visual Art Semblance Disinterest

Author:John Walford

“We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.”

Mind Art Whole Use Lying Subjects Losing Connections Communicate Impression Logical

Author:Camille Pissarro

“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Believe Kind Art Stills Play Lying Secret Missing Skills Performances Mark Notes Conviction Performing

Book:Seraphina

Source: Seraphina

“Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.”

Art Ends Lying Honestly The End Of The Day Express Yourself Jiu Jitsu Gis

Author:Saulo Ribeiro

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

Art Lying Taught Poet Telling Lies

Book:Poetics

Source: Poetics

“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Knows Men Should Wells Art Feelings Age Lying Religious Common Consciousness Perception Method Fellows Unions Various Well Being Brotherhood Fellow Man Lying Men Brotherhood Of Man

Book:What is Art?:

Source: What is Art?:

“People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.”

People Art Body Lying Pleasure Objects Activity Eating Aim Cease Nourishment Meaning Of Art

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.”

Men Should Art Facts Dream Lying Interest Demand Distance Deception Refuge Canvas Only Love Unattractive Foreground Far Distance

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.”

Mind Art Lying Left Design Execution Conceiving

Author:Will Durant

“The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.”

Art Matter Lying Block Remove Sculpture Statues Marble Rubbish Superfluous

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.”

Art Form Lying Views Point Of View Abstract Concrete Convincing

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“Art lies because it's social.”

Art Lying Social Deception

Book:The book of disquiet: a selection

Source: The book of disquiet: a selection

“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.”

Art Lying Artist Art Is Roots Sincerity Insincerity

Author:Quentin Bell

“A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”

Art Lying Values Art Is Weakness Clouds Grass Works Of Art Brotherhood Static Evanescence

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.”

Ifs Art Lying Behinds Divine Art Is Inner Beauty

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.”

Art Lying Effects Perfection Unseen Ostentatious

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“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

“All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.”

Firsts Has Beens Art Lying Art Is Crosses Males Works Of Art Strokes Erotic Penetrate Ornaments Vertical Horizontal Lying Down

Author:Adolf Loos

“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

“Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art”

Heart Art Lying Lost Wonder Lord Shapes Lows Shadow Hiding Sacraments Adore

Book:An Aquinas Reader

Source: An Aquinas Reader

“War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.”

People Thinking Art War Whole Reality Seems Lying Difficult Secret Adversaries

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.”

World Art Lying Love Is Yoga Embrace Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.”

Art Important Whole Moments Hands Running Political Lying Given Numbers Findings Infinite Possession Circles Endless Chains Firm Guarantees Links Vicious Political Life Vicious Circles

Book:What Is to Be Done?

Source: What Is to Be Done?

“Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?”

Men Doe Art Ideas Use Would Be Form Lying Values Order Symbols Penetrate Dormant

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.”

Art Stills Lying Sides Streets Green Giants Parks Wet Sculpture Umbrella Cement Rainstorms

Book:What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Source: What's Eating Gilbert Grape

“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .”

Giving Littles Art Stills Book Soul Age Lying Rooms Wonder Alive Stage Praise Delight Wit Thee Monument Applause Tombs Lodges Chaucer Spenser

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.”

Art Lying Dies Sleep Common Security Wit Ease Buried Careless Sloth Moths

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.”

Believe Kind Art Lying Certain Universe Creative Foundation Entertainment Basics

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

Men World Want Art Stills Book Happiness Joy Lying Artist Time Lost Enjoy Sin Excellence Permanent Immortality Covered Butterfly Flood Monarchy Venice Sinking Great Book Dams Florence

Author:Romare Bearden

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