“When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.” ArtHandsYoungMy OwnSpaceAttentionPracticeLaughingCryMinesNegativePissed Off Author:Kim Gordon
“It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.” MenInspirationalArtLiteratureEmotionNegativeHatredGenuineNegative Emotions Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.” IfsKnowsBelieveMayDoeArtPhilosophySecretHistoryNegativeBehaveUnconsciousImmortalHeroismContradictory Author:Sigmund Freud
“There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.” GivingArtEnergyOne ThingNegativeProfessionArchitectureObsessionItalianLunchTransformingGiving Everything Author:Renzo Piano
“Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.” YearsHumansArtSaidBookFeelingsJobsLastsMovingEnjoySecretOffersNegativeDignityTake TimeLast YearPopeEnjoy LifeSlow DownHuman DignityTime OffPlayfulnessSecret To HappinessLive And Let LiveNegative Feelings Author:Timothy Egan
“I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.” ArtTurnsWomenNegativeSymbolsWomen EmpowermentNegativityFabricSymbolismImprisonmentFamous WomenLaceRibbonsConnotationQuilts Author:Miriam Schapiro
“It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsKindArtInterestingMiddleHavensProjectsNegativeGood ThingsExtremesFeedbackVery InterestingMiddle GroundArt ProjectsNegative Feedback Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingHas BeensArtBookWantedAudienceMassNegativeGood Art Author:Bell Hooks
“Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.” ArtProblemMemoriesEmotionStudyNegativeSouthRaisedHandleMartial ArtsTemperNegative EmotionsLatchesRaised In The South Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched” FirstsArtTwoWarRealWholeFacesSimpleEnemyStudyPositionLessonsApproachReflectionEvidenceNegativeDirectSeekingUpsetOverwhelmingTroopsJustifiedMaximsAppreciatedScopeEquilibriumIndirectLaunching Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.” MeanArtMovingArtistArt IsNegativeTied Author:Cory Arcangel
“When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having.” PeopleWritingArtFormThousandNegativeAbundancePreachingChoirPreaching To The Choir Author:Eileen Myles
“When there's something negative in my life, be it in the art or the music world or in my personal life, I really just want to face it as immediately as possible. I don't run from it. I just want to immerse myself in it, get through it as quickly as possible, understand it, and look into what is positive about it.” WorldWantLooksArtRunningFacesLife IsNegativePersonal Life Author:Girl Talk
“Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.” IfsWantFeelsArtLightJoyEmotionSadnessArt IsNegativeTransformedIlluminationNegative EmotionsCompost Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Films, media, educational system and arts portray Muslims in a racist and negative way. The more interesting question is who is behind these images.” WayArtFilmInterestingBehindsMediaNegativeEducationalRacistEducational System Author:Ilan Pappe
“I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be yelled at more than other people and it would always be my fault. I learned that to be professional is your number-one priority. The art comes second. You learn that, in order to give your best performance, you have to be a good technician, which means never allowing negative influences affect your performance.” PeopleGivingMeanChildrenArtInfluenceNegativePriorities Author:Angelina Jolie
“Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could be for sale. But we had very few buyers. I think it was Michael Heizer who said that the point was to have a bigger canvas, and I've used that expression quite a bit. But I was thinking today that a canvas has boundaries; it has limit to it. And for earthwork, it was the very openness and feeling that there were no boundaries that made it so exciting.” ThinkingArtFeelingsTodayNegativeExcitingBoundariesSellingOpennessCanvasNo Boundaries Author:Virginia Dwan
“I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.” ThinkingArtImportantFeelingsFilmLiteratureEnvironmentHorrorNegativeTragedyIntenseHorror FilmLear Author:Brian Boyd
“The thing in comedy is that once you start worrying about something not succeeding, you're frozen. There's no verdict on anything. You can make ¡Three Amigos!, and some people will at the time say, "Oh, that's too silly." Then five years later, silly is hip. Now it's considered art. I never comment on anything I do, because if I say anything negative about X film, or X TV show, or X project, people who saw it and loved it go, "Well, am I an idiot?"” PeopleArtFilmWorryComedySucceedNegativeSillyIdiotCommentSay Anything Author:Martin Short
“The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.” WayArtNegativePerformancesScoreSubtlePrintComposerFilm Composers Author:Ansel Adams
“I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.” ArtPastPleasurePaintingNegativeDecadesAcceptableTwistsApprovedIsmsCuratorChecklists Author:Jerry Saltz
“You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.” IfsFirstsArtTwoCareGrowsUnderstandingWaterCompassionLove YouFlowerMastersNegativeGardenAnd LoveTake CareSeedsDiscriminationBuddhistBelovedGardeningGarbageUp To YouUnderstanding And Love Author:Nhat Hanh
“Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.” ArtHelpingEnergyArt IsNegativeHealSelf DiscoveryWho We Are Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music, poetry, dance, sculpture. All that is creative, all that is life-affirmative, is born out of meditation. All that is life-negative - hate, anger, jealousy, violence, war - is born out of the mind. Man has two possibilities: mind and meditation.” MenWayMindArtTwoWarMotherValuesHateBornCreativeMeditationViolencePossibilityNegativeSculptureAffirmativeValue Of LifeArt Music Author:Rajneesh
“Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.” WayShouldArtWould BeYoungThreeFourDirectorsPhotographyStandardsNegativePhotographerPhotographAgencyProportionPrintCropsPortfoliosConsultantsHarperBazaarsArt DirectorLeica Author:Alexey Brodovitch
“There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.” ArtEmotionDangerNegativeFuelNegative Emotions Author:Tavi Gevinson
“You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.” WayMeanArtNegativeMadnessMadFuelHateful Author:Allie Gonino
“I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond a mere recording. Yes, I've chosen the camera position, how I'm going to print the negative, the angel of the lens, what I'm going to include and exclude in the composition, so on and so forth. But, I'm still photographing a work of art, and I would rather leave it to others to comment on my work, as I just left it to you.” IfsArtStillsLeftPositionPhotographyAngelNegativeCamerasMerePhotographerPhotographChosenPrintWorks Of ArtCommentCompositionLenses Author:Bruce Barnbaum