Art Is Quotes - Page 19

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

  Poul Henningsen

  Art, Significant, Ability

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

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

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Expression, Artist

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Opposites, Chaos

  59 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Effort, Musical

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings”, New York : McGraw-Hill

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

  Philip Yancey

  Art, Stories, Form

  "Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?". Book by Philip Yancey, September 11, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

  William Westney

  Art, Moving, Rivers

  William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.222, Amadeus Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

  Michele Cassou

  Art, Passion, Painting

  7 Copy quote

• The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Art, War, Economy

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (1993). “The Peaceable Classroom”, Boynton/Cook

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.

  Shaun McNiff

  Art, Stress, Opportunity

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Moving, Weaponry

  24 Copy quote

• Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Good Life, Agreement

  5 Copy quote

• Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.

  Benedetto Croce

  Art, Real, Imagination

  42 Copy quote

• Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Inspiration, Feelings

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making a film or culture or art is part of our economy. But the main reason is this, it's part of our identity. I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual and he's stops being an individual.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Country, Art, Memories

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Trouble, Made

  15 Copy quote

• Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Ideas, Fulfillment

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “De Profundis”, p.28, Trajectory Inc

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

  Milton Avery

  Art, Made, Turns

  Milton Avery (1973). “Milton Avery drawings”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source