Art Is Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is because it somehow reflects us. And I think, ultimately, we're a tribal people by nature. We're not individualistic. We almost like to hear that there's other people in a worse state than us. Sometimes even more than we like hearing there are people in better states than us.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Selfish, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Eye, Beholder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Art, Hacking, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

  Danger Mouse

  Art, Talking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• The proper school to learn art is not life but art

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, School

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Character, Thinking

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• The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Art, Purpose, Ends

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• Chatter about art is almost always useless.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Useless, Chatter

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• Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

  Holland Cotter

  Art, Personality, Pushing

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• I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Art, Discovery, Fundamentals

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• I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

  David Shrigley

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

  Herb Alpert

  Art, Painting, Moments

  FaceBook post by Herb Alpert from Apr 26, 2017

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• Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

  Terence Koh

  Art, Internet, Destroying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Fun, Nice

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

  Melissa Pritchard

  Art, Prayer, Literature

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• Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss

  Jamie Catto

  Art, Boss, Democratic

  Jamie Catto (2016). “Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel”, p.144, Canongate Books

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• In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, People, Magic

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• Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Intellectual, Growth

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