Art Is Quotes - Page 40

• Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Strong, Men

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Footprint, Shows

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.175, Basic Books

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  Art is what you can get away with.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Freedom, Creativity

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• Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

  Thomas Mann

  Art, Spirit

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• It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence" by Shea Hennum and Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2015.

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• Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

  Robert Bresson

  Art, Unforeseen, Hostility

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.61, New York Review of Books

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• Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

  Jane Urquhart

  Art, Uranium Mining, Kind

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• Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

  Stephen King

  Art, Expectations, Realization

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Sacrifice, Office

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.173, Psychology Press

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• I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Truth, Believe

  "Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays".

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• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Realizing

  In Dore Ashton Picasso on Art (1972) "Two statements by Picasso"

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• As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

  Banksy

  Art, Museums, I Can

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• Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Art, Lying

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• Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Tacos, Great Art

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• A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

  David Gerrold

  Art, Lice, Acts Of Love

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• The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Blue, Proof

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• The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Book, Stressed

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.60, Vintage

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• The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Emotion, Audience

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.265, Faber & Faber

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• What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Mind, Adjectives

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• The end of art is peace.

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Ends

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978”, p.112, Macmillan

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• The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Hate, Creativity

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• Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Writing, Life Is Short

  Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.6, Gottfried & Fritz

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