Art Is Quotes - Page 20

• 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

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• Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Mind, Problem

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• Fine art is in the last consequence,
  philosophy expressed visually.

  Max Bill

  Art, Philosophy, Lasts

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• Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Essence, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

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• I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Art, Honesty

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• In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Art, Prayer

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• The earth without art is just eh.

  Demetri Martin

  Art, Earth

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• The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.

  Clement Greenberg

  Photography, Art, Historical

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• Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Taken, Names

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• Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Technology, Obsolete

  Jeff Koons (2002). “Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

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• With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really involved with the beginning stages of it. Art is something that I haven't really put out to the public. There's a couple pictures on MySpace, but I haven't done a gallery opening or anything like that. Art is very personal to me. I haven't really shared it with too many people.

  Tinsel Korey

  Art, Couple, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  Raf Simons

  Fashion, Art, Giving

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• The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

  Leslie Bradshaw

  Art, Data, Stories

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• All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Creation, Substitutes

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• Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

  William Mortensen

  Photography, Art, Communication

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• If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

  Charles Negre

  Photography, Art, Poetic

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• The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

  Richard Prince

  Art, Golf, Games

  Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press

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• I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.

  Todd Walker

  Art, Thinking, Secret

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• The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Art

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.767, Univ of California Press

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• I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

  Patrick Stump

  Art, Records, Want

  "Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump Speaks Out -- About Life, Celebrity And Folie A Deux" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 22, 2008.

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• Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.

  Del tha Funkee Homosapien

  Art, Creativity, Reflection

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• Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.

  Rachael Price

  Art, Reflection, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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