Art Is Quotes - Page 23

• Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up in artist in time. But art is a little bit different. Art is a conversation. And if there's no conversation, what the hell is it about?

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Mean, Discipline

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.

  Kim Anderson

  Art, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Interview with Kim Anderson: Material Matters". Sarasota Visual Art Interview, sarasotavisualart.com.

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• Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Art, Luxury

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2010.

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• Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

  Voltaire

  Art, Secret, Knows

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Atheist, Philosophy

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• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Interesting, Youth

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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• Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

  Scott Thompson

  Art, Gloss, Activism

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• Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

  Seth

  Art, Responsibility, People

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• Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Unique, Design

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• We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Imagination, Effort

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• The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

  Adam Phillips

  Art, Secret, Want

  Adam Phillips (2010). “On Balance”, p.210, Penguin UK

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• Art is apotheosis;
  Often, the complaint of beauty.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Apotheosis, Complaints

  "Dancing of Sounds". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Struggle, Making Money

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• Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Floating, Journalism

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• I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Believe, Magic

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• I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

  Henry Miller

  Art, World, Slave

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Judgement, Erotic

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

  Jack London

  Art, Men, Conquer

  Jack London (2015). “The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature”, p.113, 谷月社

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• It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

  Richard Steele

  Art, People, Cunning

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.331

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• I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is because it somehow reflects us. And I think, ultimately, we're a tribal people by nature. We're not individualistic. We almost like to hear that there's other people in a worse state than us. Sometimes even more than we like hearing there are people in better states than us.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Selfish, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Eye, Beholder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

  Wong Kar-wai

  Art, Looks, Wow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Interesting, Addresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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