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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

“Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.”

Believe Kind Littles Art Sometimes Artist Individual Bits Security Emotional Little Bit Transformation Financial Individuality Reactions Emotional Life Financial Security

Author:Arman

“When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.”

People Thinking Should Writing Art Sometimes Artist Fashion Truth Is Aim Ugly Artistic Shock Telling The Truth Shocking

Author:Tennessee Williams

“It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.”

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Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.”

Knows Littles Art Sometimes Greater Genius Ignorant Judgement

Author:Joseph Addison

“The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.”

Knows Mind Art Self Sometimes Attitude Capable Assuming Contrary Experts Officials Aggressive Academic Defence Self Defence

Author:Ronald Fisher

“What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.”

Way Art Sometimes Feelings Space Missing Painting Finding Yourself Reach Out Ascendancy

Author:Milton Resnick

“Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.”

Art Sometimes Form Next Given Term Steps Taken Type Edges Experiments Traditional Artistic Labels Simplest Next Steps Steps Forward Avant Garde Outdated

Book:Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

Source: Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

“Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.”

Art Made Sometimes Film Form Example Diminish Trash

Author:Charlton Heston

“With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.”

Art Sometimes Culture Bits Particular Creating Art Is Accidents Works Of Art Popular Culture

Author:Sydney Pollack

“That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.”

People Art Sometimes Art Is Shocking

Author:Willow Smith

“There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.”

Giving Art Important Different Sometimes Kids School Space Creativity Creative Talent Type Traditional Platforms

Author:Caity Lotz

“Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.”

Ifs Art Sometimes Past Energy Loses Forget Art Is Claims Museums Circuits Past Present Past Present And Future New Work Working Now

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.”

Men Mean Art Sometimes Whole Character Able Opportunity Higher Integrity Advantage Bravery Openness Cunning Miscarriage

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.”

Men Feels Writing Mind Art Sometimes Use Body Wish Crafts Sculptors Small Parts

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.”

Art Sometimes Space Patterns Time And Space Juggling

Author:Ronald Graham

“The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.”

Heart Art Said Sometimes Artist Social Wonder Terrible Celebrate Working It Celebration Chaotic Splendor Amenable

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration