Art Is Quotes - Page 21

• I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, Thinking, People

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• The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.

  Yip Man

  Art, Accomplishment, Goal

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• Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Art, Healing, Long

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• People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, People, Reason

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Art is but imitation of nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Imitation

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• If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Psychics

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• Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Two, Giving

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• Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

  Emma Goldman

  Art, Reality, Desire

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• An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.

  Peter London

  Song, Art, Lying

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Way, Success And Failure

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.135, Penguin

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• Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Attention, World

  Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.408, Counterpoint

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• Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Art, Fun, Awards

  "The Best Movie of the Year" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.

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• One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Tolerance, Use

  "The Educated Imagination (Talk 3: Giants in Time)". Book by Northrop Frye, 1963.

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• Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, I Believe

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• All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Philosophy, Rights

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• There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

  Peter Thiel

  Art, Sight, Novices

  "Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future". Book by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, September 18, 2014.

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• Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

  Henry James

  Dog, Art, Confusion

  The Spoils of Poynton preface (1909)

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• Past art is subject to change.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Past, Subjects

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Strong, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Political, Problem

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

  Betty Dodson

  Art, Creativity, Names

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Art, Ideas, Sociology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Creativity, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Narrative, Firsts

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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