Art Quotes - Page 36

• Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Feelings, Perception

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.175, e-artnow

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• When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

  Terence McKenna

  Void, Dimensions, Obligation

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• Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

  Darryl Anka

  Mirrors, Pieces, Function

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• Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Teach

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• In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

  Georges Braque

  One Thing, Bits

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• Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Degrees, Found, Mould

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.796, Delphi Classics

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• All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Awful, Spirit

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

  Jonathan Alter

  Silly, Analyzing, Politician

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• Silence is one great art of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Communication, Silence, Conversation

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

  Edmund Burke

  Partnership, Born, Art Is

  1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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• I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Important, Way

  "It’s Not Beautiful" by Evan Osnos, www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

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• Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

  Hugh Walpole

  Together, Art And Life, Ought

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• If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.

  Rudy Gutierrez

  Self, Medicine, Design

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• Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role, or that of an add on.

  John A. Hiigli

  Design, Parent, Add

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• The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly speaking there is no such thing as applied science, for, the moment the attempt is made to apply, science passes into the realm of art.

  Joseph William Mellor

  Law, Purpose, Chemistry

  Joseph William Mellor (1946). “A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry”

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• Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

  Eli Siegel

  Originality, Fairness, Charm

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• To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

  Joe Biden

  Moving On, Wise, Men

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.22, Random House

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• Art is stronger than Nature

  Titian

  Stronger, Art Is

  Norbert Wolf, Titian (2006). “I, Titian”, Prestel Publishing

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• Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Divinity

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.93, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

  Augusto Boal

  Theatre

  Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge

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• Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Philosophy, Giving, Asking

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• He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Winning, New Friends, Lost

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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• The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiring, Dual Nature, Neglect

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• The art of love is God at work through you.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Love, Christian, Love Is

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