Best art & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.”

Men Should Art God Earth Heaven Glory Works Of Art Mechanism Heaven And Earth Converses

Author:Aristotle

“The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?”

Should Art Modernism Ransom

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Should Art Self Sells Busy Suspects Crap Marketplace Self Indulgent

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.”

Feels Should Art Book Emotion Art Is Theater

Author:Dominique Swain

“In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.”

Should Art Ideas Europe Tradition

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.”

Thinking Way Should Art Fans Particular Genius Absolutes Massive Brits

Author:David Morrissey

“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.”

Should Years Art Film Battle Vicious Funding Australian Australian Films

Author:Ann Macbeth

“I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.”

People Thinking Should Art Damage

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

Thinking World Should Art Important Country Kids School Form Used Lost Music Is Jazz Used To Be Exposed Lost Art Music In Schools

Author:Chrisette Michele

“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.”

“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.”

Should Art Lines Fluid Art And Life

Author:Allan Kaprow

“The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.”

People Should Trying Long Art Enough Enjoy Justice Art Is Criticism Filled Misery Photographer Speed Arguing Sympathetic

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.”

Should Kind Children Art Done Practice Study Theory Art Is Tests Judgement Branches Engineers Work Done

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.”

World Should Art Important Country Shows Used Artist Creative Singers Cups African American Usa Begging Tin Creative Art Creative Artists Opera Singers Tin Cup

Author:Leontyne Price

“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

“The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art”

“I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.”

Thinking Feels Should Persons Art Matter Pain Artist Suffering Like You Demon Pain And Suffering

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.”

Should Art Use Term Clear Style Photography Art Is Photographer Useless Sophisticated Documents Documentaries Mislead

Author:Walker Evans

“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”

Way Want Should Kind Persons Art Book Sometimes Jobs Reading Asks Literature Easy Can Do Challenges Simple Effort Tvs Direct What You Want All Kinds Passive Obscure Interactive

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.”

Should Art Waiting Landscape Abstract Abstraction Jewels Abstract Art

Author:Melissa Brown

“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”

Thinking Should Art Meaning Of Life Thrive Viewers

Book:Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work

Source: Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work

“Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.”

Should Art Form Levels Cooking Accepted

Author:Julia Child

“Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.”

Men Should Mean Art Real Law Influence Activity Authority Police Institutions Court Peaceful Operations Factories Joyous Charitable Inspection Law Courts

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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?:

“An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.”

Should May Art Artist

Book:Curiosities of literature

Source: Curiosities of literature

“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

“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

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

Should Wells Children Art Parent Knowledge Virtue Concern Careful Manners Innocence Good Manners More Knowledge Speaking Well

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“All works of art should begin... at the end.”

Should Art Ends Works Of Art

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.”

Should Children Art Style Regard Imitation Nephew

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.”

Should Kind Art Teaching Objectives Pupils

Author:Howard Pyle

“Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?”

Should May Art Joy Imagination Ambition Feminist Theme Introducing Incapable Flawless Creeks Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.”

Should Art Desire Impression Neatness

Author:Eli Siegel

“I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.”

Thinking Should Art Made Facts Seems Pleasure Despair Art Is Contradiction Always Believe

Author:David Hockney

“This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.”

Should Art Age Boys Modern Consequence Bother Delightful Great Art Modernism Modern Art My Boys Pundits

Author:Anthony Burgess

“The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.”

Giving Should Has Beens Art Influence Prove Art Is Rewards Prize Medal Jury Giving In Pernicious

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.”

Should Believe Art I Believe Painting Uplifting Viewers Painting And Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.”

Should Art Theory Art Is Forgotten Erase

Book:Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”

Needs Should Art Soul Matter Spirit Desire Artist Wish Failing Painting Noble Your Soul Host Kindred Painting Art

Book:Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

“Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.”

People Thinking Want Should Kind Art Forever Creating Narrative Contradiction Expecting Inherent Convenient Embodiment Famous Artist Contradicting

Author:Kiki Smith

“They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“Art should be concerned more with life than with art.”

Should Art Concerned

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.”

Should Humans Heart Art Energy Understanding Skills Complexes Simplicity Stamina

Book:Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.”

Should Art Stories Beautiful Form Interest Fields Expression Paint Abstract Colour Works Of Art Illustration Expressive

Author:John F. Carlson

“Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.”

Thinking Should Looks Art Done Taught Flow Assuming Taught Us Impressionists

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.”

Needs Should Heart Art Brain Standards Casts Curious Honour Philosophic Heart And Brain

Author:Robert Genn

“If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.”

Ifs Should Littles Art Reality Form Spring Bases Abstract Short Lived

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.”

Feels Should Art Book Bits Week Couple Enthusiasm Dull Relaxation Resting And Relaxation

Author:E. J. Hughes

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