Art Quotes - Page 20

• To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

  Robert Schumann

  Inspiring, Men, Light

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• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

  Andy Warhol

  War, People, Needs

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Philosophy, Sake, Feds

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• The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

  Banksy

  People, Holy Grail, Looks

  "Something to Spray". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2003.

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• You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Nature, Theory, Painter

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• The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Utterance, Speech, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

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• Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Hurt, Memorable, Goes On

  Heat of the Day (1949) ch. 16

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

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

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• No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Exercise, Cutting

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

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• Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Hurt, Home, Stay Positive

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.109, Library of America

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• Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Real, Two, Soul

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• In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Infinite, Should

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• Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

  George A. Moore

  Philosophy, History, Ends

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• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

  Theodor Adorno

  Order, Design, Tasks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

  Gustave Courbet

  Beautiful, Reality, Form

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• Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.

  Michelangelo Pistoletto

  Museums, People, Levels

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• I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

  Albert Oehlen

  Mean, Oil, Insecurity

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Drinking, Creativity

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• I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Two, Answers, Ends

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• Art does not imitate, but interpret.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Doe

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

  Henri Matisse

  Funny, Expression, Drawing

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted in the review of "The Drawings of Henri Matisse" exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Business

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• For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Drinking, Intoxication, Certain

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Powerful, Writing, Advice

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• I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

  Andy Warhol

  Long, Looks, Architecture

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