Art Is Quotes - Page 17

• All art is made from anger.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Made

  Alexander Alberro, Lawrence Weiner (1998). “Lawrence Weiner”, Phaidon Press

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• Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

  Richard Serra

  Art, Play, Ingredients

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• Art is a leap into the dark.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dark, Leap

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• I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

  Cung Le

  Art, Believe, Chains

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are overdone and stuffy. That was what lead us to explore that area of science fiction and future, a world we can create and control.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Kings, Fighting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Art, Mean

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3324, 谷月社

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• Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Perfection

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• Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Say Anything, Social

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.129, Penguin

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• Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Mediators, Unspeakable

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• The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

  John Hersey

  Art, Finals, Tests

  John Hersey (1974). “The writer's craft”, McGraw-Hill

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• I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• The purpose of art is mystery.

  Rene Magritte

  Art, Purpose, Mystery

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• Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

  Jose Bernardo

  Life, Art, Powerful

  Jose Raul Bernardo (1997). “The Secret of the Bulls”, Simon & Schuster

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• Industry without art is brutality.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Brutality, Industry

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2007). “Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art”, p.17, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, Fate, Armistice

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• A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

  Christopher Walken

  Art, Men, Fire

  "Fictional character: Rayburn". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

  Doris Humphrey

  Art, Adventure, Excitement

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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• The basis of art is change in the universe.

  Matsuo Basho

  Art, Bases, Universe

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• Formal art is essentially rational.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Formal, Rational

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.

  Leopold Auer

  Art, Real, Technique

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• The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Hero, People

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• Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Kitsch, Superficiality

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• Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

  Robert Musil

  Art, Air, Tools

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• No great work of art is ever finished.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Great Work, Finished

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• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Government, Ridiculous

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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