Art Is Quotes - Page 27

• I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.

  Geoff Rickly

  Art, Sleep, Essence

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

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• Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Use, Conscience

  Source: collider.com

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• You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

  Walker Evans

  Art, Style, Use

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• The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Together, Art Of Living

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.115, Read Books Ltd

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• Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Men, Shipwreck

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• You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Emotional, Different

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• Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

  Elmer Rice

  Art, Reality, Strikes

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• The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lying, Reality

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• Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, Feelings, Perception

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• The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Matter, Function

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• Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Simple, Long

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• All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

  Dale Carnegie

  Art

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• When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Humanity, Shock

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• Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

  Poul Henningsen

  Art, Significant, Ability

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• Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Fellow Man

  George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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• Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.

  Gary North

  Art, Facts, Cacophony

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• Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Expression, Artist

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• The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

  John Fowles

  Art, Men, Essentials

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• All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Good Art, Deeper

  Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.456, Crown Archetype

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• When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

  Len Wein

  Art, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think that the big crunch should be seen as a menace, but rather as an opportunity. It's one of these times in -history - and we have plenty of examples from the past - where it's possible to really make a difference. And if art is serious about claiming a central role in today's society and culture, this is the best chance it's had in ages.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

  M.I.A.

  Art, America, Mad

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.

  Matthew Brannon

  Art, Dirty, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• "Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

  Cory Arcangel

  Art, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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