Art Is Quotes - Page 17

• Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, Feelings, Perception

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• My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, People, Choices

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• The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Matter, Function

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• Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Simple, Long

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• All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

  Dale Carnegie

  Art

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• When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Humanity, Shock

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• Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

  Aristotle

  Art, Type, Higher

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• We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Mystery, Danger

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• Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

  Poul Henningsen

  Art, Significant, Ability

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• Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Fellow Man

  George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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• Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, War, Enemy

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• Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.

  Gary North

  Art, Facts, Cacophony

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• Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Expression, Artist

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• When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality.

  Antonio Tarver

  Art, Reality, Champion

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• Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

  John Fowles

  Art, Use, Faces

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

  John Fowles

  Art, Men, Essentials

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• All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Good Art, Deeper

  Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.456, Crown Archetype

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• Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Opposites, Chaos

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• When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

  Len Wein

  Art, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think that the big crunch should be seen as a menace, but rather as an opportunity. It's one of these times in -history - and we have plenty of examples from the past - where it's possible to really make a difference. And if art is serious about claiming a central role in today's society and culture, this is the best chance it's had in ages.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's in our nature. If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that. So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually makes sense.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Together, Tangible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.

  Jordan Wolfson

  Art, Challenges, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Philosophy, Differences

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there with ideas, and to have your brain be free of stress so that it can actually do its best work, it feels like you want to have a real sense of intimacy and connection and trust with everybody.

  Lynn Shelton

  Art, Real, Stress

  Source: collider.com

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• What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

  M.I.A.

  Art, America, Mad

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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