Art Is Quotes - Page 38

• Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ugly, Boring

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• Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Subjective

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• The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Levels, Existentialism

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• A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Groups

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• Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Past, World

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• I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Feel Better, Matter

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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Century

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• Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Modern, Eternal

  Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (2005). “Egon Schiele: love and death”, Cantz

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• Art is the daughter of freedom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Mother, Art

  Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume I”, p.262, Executive Intelligence Review

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• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Revenge, Mean

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• I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

  Shakira

  Art, Clothes, Cameras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

  Russell Simmons

  Art, Way, Express Yourself

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• The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Unique, Greatness

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Girl, Art, People

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• In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Style, Finals

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  Octavia Spencer

  Dream, Art, Destiny

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• The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Real, Play

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• I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Art, Kind

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• Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

  John Millington Synge

  Beauty, Art, Character

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.317, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art is an investigation.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Investigation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

  Michael Tippett

  Art, Integrity, Conspiracy

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• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Food, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.156, Leo Tolstoy

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• The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

  Edward Tufte

  Art, Science, Design

  "Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation: From Spaceships to Microchips". Book by Kevin R. Grazier and Stephen Cass, p. 89, 2017.

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• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Art, Morning, New York

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

  John Updike

  Baby, Art, Shoes

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