Art Quotes - Page 32

• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Essence, Understanding

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Things In Life, Creating, Mind

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Blue, Color, Sea

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• It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Light, Strange

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• And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

  Maya Deren

  Vision, Assuming, Sometimes

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• We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Photography, Thinking, Ideas

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• You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

  Franz Kline

  Life, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

  Art Wolfe

  Photography, Stopping, Matter

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• Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  Confusion, Purpose, Guidance

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• Music is the space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Weekend, Silence

  "Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Poetry, Naked

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 09, 2011

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Men, Order, Perspective

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• My work is a game, a very serious game.

  M. C. Escher

  Work, Games, Serious

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• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Eye, Thoughtful

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Thinking

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Healing

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

  Clement Greenberg

  Travel, Eye, Creating

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• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  Caravaggio

  Life, Nature, Work

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• One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

  Ted Harrison

  Children, Work, Simple

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• My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

  Louis Riel

  Sleep, Years, People

  "The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters". Book by Max Wyman, p. 85, 2004.

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• Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Practice, Design, Effort

  Robert Edmond Jones, Delbert Unruh (1992). “Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones”, Amadeus Press

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• Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Believe, Ideas, Creating

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• There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

  Kara Walker

  Education, Doctors, World

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