Art Is Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Thinking, Self

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• All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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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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• 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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• I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.

  Sean Lennon

  Song, Art, Writing

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Thinking, Psychosis

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

  Helen Mirren

  Letting Go, Art, Intuition

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

  Walton Goggins

  Art, People, Vacuums

  Source: collider.com

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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