Art Is Quotes - Page 38

• The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Serenity, Purpose

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• The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Purpose, Wonder

  Commencement address at York University, Toronto, Canada, 6 Nov. 1982

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• It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Art, Real, Moving

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• Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

  Derek Walcott

  Art, Church, Village

  Derek Walcott, “From 'Omeros'”

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• Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Mean, Order

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• Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head

  Maya Deren

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Art, Real, Illumination

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• Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

  Goldwin Smith

  Art, Expression

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable.
  The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Art, Maturity

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• The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Art, Depth, Purpose

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• In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Reality

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• Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

  Gunter Grass

  Art, Puritan, Irrational

  New Statesman and Society interview, 1990.

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• Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

  Gunter Grass

  Crush, Art, Passion

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• Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

  Gunter Grass

  Art, Compromise, Life Is

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• I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.

  Alex Raymond

  Dream, Art, Illustration

  Alex Raymond (1990). “Flash Gordon: Mongo, the planet of doom”

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• Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

  Bliss Carman

  Song, Art, Long

  1923 Ballads and Lyrics,'Envoi'. These lines are reproduced on the plaque erected in his honour at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

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• Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Believe, Fundamentals

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• Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Expression, Way

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• Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

  David Alfaro Siqueiros

  Art, Eye, Feelings

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• Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Change, Music, Dance

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• Art is a line around your thoughts.

  Gustav Klimt

  Art, Thinking, Deep Thought

  Gustav Klimt, Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina (2016). “Gustav Klimt Artworks”, p.17, Book and Magazine

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• There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Inspirational, Art, Breaking Rules

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• I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Thinking, Essence

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

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• Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

  Jim Dine

  Art, Passion, Dine In

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• Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Voice, Dancing

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