Art Is Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's just as banal as trying to show my version of the beauty in the world. It's about beauty at the end of the day.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Art, Thinking, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

  Dale Peck

  Art, Thinking, Upset

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.

  Marco Brambilla

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.

  Geoff Rickly

  Art, Sleep, Essence

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

  Geoff Rickly

  Art, Class, Virtue

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Concealment

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• The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Together, Art Of Living

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.115, Read Books Ltd

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• Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.

  John Perry Barlow

  Art, Praying, Holy

  "The Next Economy Of Ideas". www.wired.com. October 01, 2000.

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• Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Men, Shipwreck

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• One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Inspiration, Cells

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• You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Emotional, Different

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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Art, Reality, Self

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• The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lying, Reality

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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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• 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 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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• 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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