Art Is Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• ... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Exercise, Imagination

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

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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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• Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Order, Desire

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Judgement, Erotic

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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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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• Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

  Sara Blecher

  Art, Persons, Subjective

  Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Powerful, People

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

  Sophie Calle

  Art, Distance, Way

  Interview with Louise Neri, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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• To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mean, Men

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

  Kingsley Amis

  Art, Thinking, Elements

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• A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Games, Serious

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• The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Art, Purpose, Ends

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• Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Clear

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• Chatter about art is almost always useless.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Useless, Chatter

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