Art Is Quotes - Page 10

• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Interesting, Youth

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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• When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

  Kevin James

  Art

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• Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Ends, Values

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due.  Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.

  Seth

  Life, Art, Jobs

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• The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

  Adam Phillips

  Art, Secret, Want

  Adam Phillips (2010). “On Balance”, p.210, Penguin UK

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• The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

  William Morris

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

  Laura Esquivel

  Art, Produce, Know How

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Floating, Journalism

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• I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

  Henry Miller

  Art, World, Slave

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Space, Quality

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

  Warwick Thornton

  Art, White, Australia

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Art, Luxury

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2010.

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• Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

  William Everson

  Art, Healing, Handmaids

  William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”

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• Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

  Scott Thompson

  Art, Gloss, Activism

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• Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

  Seth

  Art, Responsibility, People

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• Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Unique, Design

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• We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Imagination, Effort

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• Art is apotheosis;
  Often, the complaint of beauty.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Apotheosis, Complaints

  "Dancing of Sounds". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

  Jim Davis

  Art, Cat, Feelings

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• The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

  Robert Morgan

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Believe, Magic

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• Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Term, Aesthetic

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

  Jack London

  Art, Men, Conquer

  Jack London (2015). “The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature”, p.113, 谷月社

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• It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

  Richard Steele

  Art, People, Cunning

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.331

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