Art Quotes - Page 38

• If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Research, Affair

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.42, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

  Peter Medawar

  Mean, Science, Research

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• Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Best Work, Art Is

  Seth Godin (2013). “Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.208, Penguin UK

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• Dancers are both athletes and artists.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Athlete, Dancing, Dancer

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• Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

  Jerome Robbins

  Book, Dancing, Totems

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• Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Vision, Mankind

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• Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Wisdom, Four Agreements

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• Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

  Ben Hunt

  Beautiful, Communication, Creativity

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• Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

  Ai Weiwei

  Joy, Life Is, Feels

  "'Shame on Me'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

  Ai Weiwei

  Expression, Skills, Overcoming

  "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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• To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Today, Littles, Matter

  Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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• Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

  Arthur Boyd

  Want, Matter, Painter

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• Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

  Tim Brown

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Reading

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• Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work
  is new, complex, and vital.

  Oscar Wilde

  Diversity, Opinion, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.8, Prestwick House Inc

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• Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

  damali ayo

  Thinking, Make You Think, Should

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

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• The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mean, Alive, Humans

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.244, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

  Albert Camus

  Would Be, Needs, Enigma

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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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• An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

  Raymond Chandler

  Want, Lovers, Deny

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.95, Univ of California Press

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• Repetition is the death of art.

  Robin Green

  Repetition

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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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• 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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• Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Meditation, Doing Nothing, Delicate

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• Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

  Paul Gauguin

  Philosophy, History, Art Is

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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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