Fine Arts Quotes - Page 7

• Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Mean, Poetry

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

  Kanye West

  Art, Oxford, Goal

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Fine

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.82, John Ruskin

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.

  Kanye West

  Art, Past, Thinking

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  Art, Indifference, Barbarism

  Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11, p. 94; also in "The Dictionary of Art", Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner, 1976.

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• The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Real, Secret

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• To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

  Horace Kephart

  Art, Light, Utensils

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• It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

  Andy Clark

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

  Mike Myers

  Art, School, Film

  "Toronto: Fleming Q&A’s Mike Myers On ‘Supermensch’ Directorial Debut". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. September 6, 2013.

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Freedom, Painter

  Wassily Kandinsky (1981). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.52, Library of Alexandria

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Grandchildren

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

  W. Ann Reynolds

  Art, Women, Memorable

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• I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Struggle, Artist

  Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America

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• I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

  Fran Drescher

  Beach, Art, Looks

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• I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

  David Byrne

  New York, Ambition, Artist

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• That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Real, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Dirty

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• I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat.

  Stephen Colbert

  Art, Nice, Mean

  Stephen Colbert's Commencement Address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, www.alternet.org. June 5, 2006.

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• But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

  Dieter Rams

  Confused, Artist, People

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• A Good artist has less time than ideas.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Ideas, Artist

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• Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Opportunity

  "The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California".

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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