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“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.”

“Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.”

Want Art Rooms Possibility Limits Scientist Critics Boundaries Mathematician Busybodies

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.”

Art Hope Causes Situation Limits Findings Originals Temporary Misfortunes Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.”

Knows Art Different Self Artist Levels Mystery Influence Balance Limits Art Is Tolerance Pursuit Delicate Different Levels Scotch Assertiveness Personal Limits

Author:Robert Genn

“Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.”

Art Problem Order Women Situation Limits Enlightenment Duality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.”

World Art Seems Chance Roles Plans Mystery Balance Limits Essentials Surprise Operations Recognizing Calculations Paradoxical Collaborating Unforeseen

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.”

Way Art Order Principles Possibility Limits Organization

Book:Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975

Source: Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975

“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.”

Ifs World Way Mind Humans Children Art Dream Common Limits Draws Art Is Logic Common Sense Immortal Works Of Art

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.”

Art Limits Oneself

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).”

Thinking World Firsts Art Philosophy History Limits

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.”

Men Mind Art Philosophy History Wall Limits Every Man

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.”

Humans May Art Different Together Law Quality Limits Opposites Distance Boundaries Rational Fixed Enjoyment Consistent Contradiction Providence Gratification Passing Away

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.”

Mean Art Enough Stories Interesting Consciousness Our Lives Happened Bears Limits Art Is Driven Tragic Engines Anecdotes Tragic Life

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.”

World Art Ends Artist Expression Limits Infinite

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.”

Art Walks Pay Talking Pure Conversation Limits Tired Coffee Friendly Listeners Waiter

Author:John Dos Passos

“Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.”

Ifs Men May Art Liberty Opinion Virtue Limits All Things Orthodoxy

Author:Arturo Toscanini

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book.”

Art Said Book Bigs Limits Best Things Length Big Book

Author:Nelson Algren

“I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.”

Knows Art I Can Can Do Limits Capable Art Is Delusion Grandiose

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.”

Trying Art Limits Everyday Mediums Tattoo Artwork

Author:William Webb

“Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.”

Art Character Citizens Limits Aids Rejects Instruction Art And Science Defective

Author:Noah Webster

“I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?”

Art Powerful Consciousness Moral Possibility Personality Limits Degrees Raises Notes Saving Works Of Art Doomed Repetition Refrain Hazards Possibility Of Change Moral Hazard

Author:Adam Ross

“If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Art Bigs Conversation Limits Change For The Better Victimhood One Sided Big Changes

Author:Nelly Furtado

“Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.”

May Art Form Ability Practice Limits Visuals Cheat Habitual Interpreting Nonverbal

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.”

Ifs Trying Art Age Together Form Desire Artist Courses Sound Fields Limits Incredibles Mediums Why Not Gathering Tempting Art And Music Elasticity

Author:Yoko Ono

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

World Art Reality Imagination Limits Philosophical Painter My Imagination Boundless Fine Arts Famous Artist Imagination And Creativity Inspirational Artist Inspirational Art Imagination And Reality Imagination Reality

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.”

Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

“We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.”

Art Ends Body Running Courses Growing Limits Contrary Exhausted Advancement Scientific Truth Scientific Advancement

Author:George Edward Woodberry

“What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.”

Art Belief Limits Illusion Substitutes Fashionable Malady Scepticism Sceptic

Author:Oscar Wilde