Art Is Quotes - Page 39

• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  Ville Valo

  Art, Outsiders, Blame

  7 days Finnland Interview, August 2000.

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• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

  Tom Wolfe

  Art, Romantic Love, Games

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Painted Word”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Powerful, Mean

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

  Donnie Yen

  Motivational, Art, Self

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• The only realism in art is of the imagination.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Imagination, Realism

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Peril, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

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• Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

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• Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Art, Thinking

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• When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

  George MacDonald

  Art, Moving, Fire

  George MacDonald (2006). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

  William Saroyan

  Art, Roles, World

  Broadway memorial tribute to Saroyan, reported in The New York Times, October 31, 1983.

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• Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Ignorant, Censorship

  "Picasso". Book by Antonina Vallentin (p. 168), 1963 (1957).

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• Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Purpose, Use

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.264, Random House

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• In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, House, Lovely

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.37, Bantam

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• My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Reflection, Self

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• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Serious Person, Serious Things

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• No art is possible without a dance with death.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Art is either revolution or plagiarism

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Revolution, Plagiarism

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• The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Feelings, Groups

  "A Few Words About Robert Hughes (1938-2012)" by John Seed, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

  Eudora Welty

  Country, Art, Voice

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.40, Modern Library

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• Life is serious but art is fun!

  John Irving

  Life, Art, Fun

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Work

  Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine (1986). “Sunday in the park with George: a musical”

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• paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Art, Personality, Language

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• ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Art, Writing, Successful

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• Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Art, Categories

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.24, Convergent Books

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