Art Is Quotes - Page 26

• Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Say Anything, Social

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.129, Penguin

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• Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, People, Tools

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• comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect.  that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

  Jim Carrey

  Art, Sacrifice, Joy

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• The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

  John Hersey

  Art, Finals, Tests

  John Hersey (1974). “The writer's craft”, McGraw-Hill

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• The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

  Grace Slick

  Art, Simple, Different

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• The purpose of art is mystery.

  Rene Magritte

  Art, Purpose, Mystery

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• The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Art, Creating

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• Industry without art is brutality.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Brutality, Industry

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2007). “Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art”, p.17, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, Fate, Armistice

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• Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Suffering, Release

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Want, Making Money

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.156, Basic Books

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• The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

  Aristotle

  Art, Reality, Purpose

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• The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's ed kid, in retrospect I see that that was meaningful, and I felt close to him in that way, but at the time I just thought it was fun to draw, and that's all it was. I think that's what's weird about life and about making art. You have to talk about it later. I guess I should be prepared to talk about it now. That is why I'm here. But again, pass.

  Chelsea Martin

  Meaningful, Art, Fun

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• The basis of art is change in the universe.

  Matsuo Basho

  Art, Bases, Universe

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• One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

  John Bayley

  Art, Kitsch, Function

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• Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Kitsch, Superficiality

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• Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

  Robert Musil

  Art, Air, Tools

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• If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Horse, Fall

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• No great work of art is ever finished.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Great Work, Finished

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• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Government, Ridiculous

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you feel in your heart or your stomach, but also that challenges the brain at the same time. It's an experience - physical and intellectual.

  Camille Henrot

  Art, Strong, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's just as banal as trying to show my version of the beauty in the world. It's about beauty at the end of the day.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Art, Thinking, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

  Bill Nye

  Art, Kids, Math

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.

  Zoey Deutch

  Art, Fun, School

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

  Geoff Rickly

  Art, Class, Virtue

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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