Art Is Quotes - Page 36

• Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Country, Appreciation, Art

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• Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Art, Character, Fighting

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• The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, start allowing. We have no clue what we can be when you stop forcing and start being.

  Kyle Cease

  Life, Art, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Kyle Cease from Mar 14, 2013

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• The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Motivational, Art

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1951). “My Sister and I”, Olympia Press

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• The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, War, Should Have

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.41, Kodansha International

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• Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.

  Jack White

  Dream, Art, Adventure

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• In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Law, Elements

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.215, University of Toronto Press

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• This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Art, Educational

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.69, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12

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• Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

  John Henry Newman

  Beauty, Art, Nature

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Verses on Various Occasions”, p.15

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• The purpose of art is to stop time.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Time, Art

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• Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, Learning, Understanding

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• The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Arrogance, Trends

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• A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America

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• The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Children, Fun

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1973.

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• The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Fun, Tests

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• A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

  Edwin Forrest

  Art, Passion, Men

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• To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

  Henry Green

  Art, Purpose, Alive

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• In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

  Derren Brown

  Art, Interesting, Magic

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• If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization. It should be a majestic presence in everyday life just as it was in the past.

  Frederick Hart

  Art, Past, Civilization

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• Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Expression, Statistics

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• The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Kings, Selfish

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1905). “Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own words”

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• I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

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• Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

  Ivan Brunetti

  Art, Worry, Doe

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