Art Is Quotes - Page 36

• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

  John Keats

  Art, Excellence, Literature

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

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• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Umpires, Roots

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Math, Science

  Foreword to the book "A=B" by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, 1996.

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• Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Mean, Alive

  "Jeff Koons on drawing as a means of articulating an idea". Interview with Dale Berning, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Science, Light

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Mean, Musical

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• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Fun, People

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July, 1995.

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• I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

  Steve Lacy

  Art, Thinking, Collaboration

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• Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

  Christopher Lasch

  Art, Mirrors, Messages

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• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Men, Relation

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Eye, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

  Brandon Lee

  Art, Exercise, Discipline

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• To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Expression

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• Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Architecture, Tricky

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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Art, Religion

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• Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

  Norman Lindsay

  Art, Inspiration, Agency

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• I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

  Marilyn Manson

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Feelings, Emotion

  "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

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• Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Art

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Art, Secret

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• The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

  Golda Meir

  Art, Knowing, People

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• Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

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

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• I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

  Moby

  Art, Shows, Naive

  "One last thing". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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