Art Quotes - Page 37

• That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

  Ayn Rand

  Life Is, Contemplation, Contemplating

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.485, Penguin

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• Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

  Louise Bogan

  Achievement, Feelings, Violence

  Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

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• You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

  Josh Schwartz

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• Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  People, Literature, Fields

  "Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.

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• The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

  Carson McCullers

  Dream, Struggle, Writing

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

  Paul Simon

  Facts, Enough, Ifs

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• The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Real, Political, Politics

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• Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

  Peter Lynch

  People, Investing, Bigs

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

  Corin Nemec

  Beautiful, Ugly, Honest

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

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• How do we fight back? By creating art.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Fighting

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• The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Magic, Awful, Insensitive

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2016). “A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century”, p.129, Crown Forum

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• Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

  Robert Pinsky

  Poetry Is

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• Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

  Roger Scruton

  Two, Everyday, Cult

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• Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

  Shirin Neshat

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Crime

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• What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Lying, Discipline, Boring

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• I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

  Marc Quinn

  Thinking, Answers, Stills

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• Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.

  Sarah Curran

  Inspiration, Creativity, Imagination

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• A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Existence, Nations, Artist

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• The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Communication, Play, Imagination

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• Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

  Childe Hassam

  Eye, Acceptance, People

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• Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Vision, World, Timeless

  "The Only Punk Left: Vivienne Westwood". Interview with Kathryn Flett, slide 1, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 05, 2013.

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• To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

  Philip Kaufman

  Fun, Ideas, Joy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art Is, Temperament

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• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

  Edith Sitwell

  Life, Hymns, Praise

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

  Hun Sen

  Caring, Lost, Sharing And Caring

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