Art Quotes - Page 37

• Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

  Eric Carle

  Life, Sunset, Be Kind

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• Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

  Maxim Gorky

  Book, Men, Two

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• Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Meditation, Doing Nothing, Delicate

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• Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

  Philippe Nericault Destouches

  Criticism, Easy, Difficult

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• There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

  Ian Mcewan

  Israel, Way

  "Ian McEwan defends decision to accept Jerusalem prize" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

  Paul Gauguin

  Philosophy, History, Art Is

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• Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

  Camille

  Struggle, Nightmare, Form

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• Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Lying, Effectiveness, Chiefs

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• One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

  Jean Cocteau

  Artist, Men, Posthumous

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Crafts, Action, Drudgery

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.10, Penguin

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• I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

  Arsene Wenger

  Believe, Target, Should

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• Art is 110 percent sweat.

  Robert Riskin

  Sweat, Art Is, Percent

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• If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

  Eric Fischl

  Worry, Art Is, Ifs

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• Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

  Andrew Loomis

  Color, Purpose, Loses

  Andrew Loomis (2018). “The Eye Of The Painter”, p.159, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

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• Repetition is the death of art.

  Robin Green

  Repetition

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• When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

  Tom Robbins

  Swans, Killing, Accepting

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.167, Bantam

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• Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Surrender, Possibility, Ability

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• Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

  Piet Mondrian

  Made, Art Is

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Art Of Living, Conditions

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• Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Dream, Reality, Fire

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• The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Real, Writing

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• An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Names, Should, Worthy

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

  Michael Gungor

  Soul, Body, Pronunciation

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• Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Yoga

  "Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjala : Patañjala Yoga Pradīpikā".

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• Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Men, Study

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.36

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