Art Is Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Art, Thinking, Forums

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

  Kesh

  Art, Able, Should

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

  Fady Joudah

  Art, Thinking, Consciousness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

  Anna Journey

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Thinking, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

  Matthew Specktor

  Art, Betrayal, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everywhere I've been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people together. You can put people on the same level, the perception is the same. You can bring a worker, like a cleaning guy, or the richest guy on earth, and they will have the same feeling or they would be able to feel the same.

  eL Seed

  Art, People, Guy

  "eL Seed’s New Home". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.

  Walter Martin

  Art, Couple, Writing

  "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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• We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.

  Sam Hamill

  Art, Thinking, Humanity

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• The most important thing in art is taste.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Important, Taste

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

  Ryan Hurst

  Art, Jobs, Character

  Source: collider.com

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