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“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”

Years Mean Art Sometimes Problem Seems Artist Quality Audience Taste Ten Artistic Momentary Fluctuation Glitches

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.”

People Art Sometimes Enough Able Suffering Creative Comedian Fortunate Monopoly Creative People Traumatic Experiences

Author:Matt Lucas

“Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.”

Years Heart Art Sometimes Care Guy Chance Emotion Records Missing Shots Cameras Photographer Don't Care Threatened Great Art Take A Chance Boundless Transcendent Prom Photogenic Nikon

Author:Joan Bauer

“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

“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”

People Thinking Men Way Has Beens Art Sometimes Literature Individual Leader Mass Accounts Average Department Immense Superiority Great Leader Exhibits Literature And Art

Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

Source: The Women of Brewster Place

“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Sometimes Seems Together Position Bases Wander Strings Absurdity Incongruity

Book:The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

Source: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

“I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.”

Thinking Men Art Sometimes Painting Members Drawing Being Me Proceeding

Author:Michelangelo

“It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.”

Art Sometimes Certain Humour Forgotten Wit Comic Abstract Encounters Anguish Abstract Art

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Grows Realizing Effects Aging Enormous Frightening Time To Think

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.”

Art Sometimes Feelings Fine Standards Pretending Good Art

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.”

People Humans Art Sometimes Accepting Human Nature Acceptance Serious Ought Ocean Paint Unfortunate Quirks

Author:Robert Genn

“Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.”

Art Sometimes Summer Stones Commerce Rolling Rolling Stones

Author:Moby

“I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Care Artist Environment Fashion Projects Built Stores Brands Designer Fashion And Art

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”

People Art Ends Sometimes Given Products Program Budgets Architect Schedules

Author:Frank Gehry

“Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.”

Knows Mean Art Real Sometimes Reader Angry

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.”

Humans Art Sometimes Expression Skills Degrees Art Is Universal Mirrors

Author:Sara Genn