Art Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.

  Ronda Rousey

  Nice, Fighting, Feels

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

  Leo Steinberg

  Lying, Effectiveness, Chiefs

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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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• 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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• 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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• Art is 110 percent sweat.

  Robert Riskin

  Sweat, Art Is, Percent

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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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• Life is short and the art long.

  Hippocrates

  Life Is Short, Long, Training

  Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1910). “Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”

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