Art Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

  Paul Gauguin

  Philosophy, History, Art Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

  Philippe Nericault Destouches

  Criticism, Easy, Difficult

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

  Camille

  Struggle, Nightmare, Form

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

  Clive Bell

  Moving, Independent, Paris

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• The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

  Francois Delsarte

  Emotion, Form, Objects

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• We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

  Donald Knuth

  Strive, Process, Should

  "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, dl.acm.org. December 1974.

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• It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock. That's beautiful to me. But also nature. A person can be beautiful as well. And beauty is also defined as 'untouched'. Indeed, that's an ideal: that we humans are untouched and therefore beautiful.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Pieces, Painting

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• The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.

  Gerhard Richter

  Challenges, Ongoing, Pieces

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Teacher, Cheerleader, Students

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