Best impossible & art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.”

World Art Today Form Impossible Size France Cinema Representing

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.”

Knows Wells Littles Art Able House Simple Deals Impossible Scene Prove Dear Appearance Insecurity Wealthy Simple Life Patron Creditors

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.”

World Littles Art Ends Felt Impossible Produce Despair Desperation Incidents Verge

Book:Heiligenstädter Testament

Source: Heiligenstädter Testament

“Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.”

Art Impossible Extremes Useless Justify

Author:Francis Picabia

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.”

Art Whole Clear Cutting Impossible Equal Various Science Religion Religion And Art

Author:Max Planck

“I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.”

Thinking Art Form Impossible Dying Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:El-P

“Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.”

Littles Art Made Impossible Genius Mountain Difficulty Dissatisfaction Cabins

Author:J. E. H. MacDonald

“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.”

Art Whole Easy Pleasure Impossible Style Genius Speech Composition Disguise Utility Recognise Ingenious Plagiarism Orators

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.”

Art Reason Political Artist Impossible Produce Pure Workers

Book:Some Versions of Pastoral

Source: Some Versions of Pastoral

“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Humans Art Artist Values Imagination Impossible Happened Subjects Art Is Police Terror Despite Concentration Camps Human Values Concentration Camp

Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.”

“When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.”

“Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.”

Ifs Art Impossible Connections Propaganda

Book:The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

“There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.”

Writing Art Feelings Reality Values Impossible Crosses Entertainment Sentences Fabric Disrespect Truth And Reality

Author:Rachel Cusk

“There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.”

“Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.”

Men Humans Art Nature Natural Human Beings Impossible Unnatural

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.”

Humans Art Soul Impossible Activity Discovery Concern Firm Immortal Remembrance Persuasion Human Soul

Author:Cato the Younger

“It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.”

People Art Impossible Position Saint Boring Evening Posts Free Will Saturday Saturday Evening

Author:W. H. Auden

“Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.”

Thinking Should Art Enough Able Poetry Artist Impossible Poet Valuable Accomplishment Poetry Is Rise Above

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.”

Should Firsts Art Lasts Healing Principles Impossible Details Cosmos Providence Prophecy

Author:Sallust

“That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.”

Art Dream Able Process Imagination Deals Existence Quality Impossible Risk Building Block Touching Blank Canvas Strokes Toil Great Art Building Blocks Blank Canvas Foreign Places

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!”

Thinking Needs May Art Life Is Humanity Technology Impossible India Innovation Combination Art Of Living

Author:Narendra Modi

“It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives. We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.”

“Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to hold on to. It's more chemical reaction, one you have to re-create each time, than a substance. Art's discoveries are also, almost always, counter to ordinary truths.”

Art Remember Impossible Ordinary Art Is Discovery Reactions Substance Chemicals Multiple Unforgettable Newness Chemical Reactions

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.”

“Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.”

Art Impossible Stage Movement Fleeting Momentum Ephemeral

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh is to recognize that it is totally impossible for it to ever be the same, night after night. You open your mouth and you'd like a certain sound to come out of it, but it doesn't always come out exactly like you thought it was going to come out!”

Ifs Way Art Two Form Night Certain Sound Acting Impossible Serious Like You Singing Mouths Repetitive

Author:Mary Travers

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.”

Art Fiction Fantasy Impossible Science Fiction

Author:Ray Bradbury

“To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.”

Art Dies Actors Impossible Actresses Theatre Destroyed Plague Actors And Actresses

Author:Eleanora Duse

“Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.”

Art Impossible Poetry Is Retreat Overhearing

Book:The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Source: The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.”

Men World Want Should Has Beens Art Said Night Song Sound Wonder Impossible Musician Art Is Jazz Shoes Instance Tied Great Art Jazz Music Carter Jazz Musician Mascara Rouge

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.”

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Author:Mel Bochner

“God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls. You will suffer also in another way. Love will be your executioner. Let it do its work; it knows how. In this martyrdom we have need of extraordinary grace and strength; but God will bestow it. Without this divine help it would be impossible to bear up.”

“I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

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