Fine Arts Quotes - Page 9

• If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

  Gene Black

  Art, Missing, Would Be

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• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  Kami Garcia

  Art, Writing, College

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• There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.

  Paul Klee

  Music, Art, Learning

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• The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

  Johan Huizinga

  Music, Sports, Fashion

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• Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

  George Eliot

  Art, Kind, Fine

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.426

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• I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

  Bill Griffith

  Art, New York, School

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• So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Art, Journey

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Dec 15, 2011

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• Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

  Jack London

  Art, Flower, Animal

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3773, Delphi Classics

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• The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Song, Art, Drama

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• The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Creativity, Exercise

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• A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Art, School, College

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• Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teacher, Art, Fine

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.594, e-artnow

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• Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Real, Moving

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1150, e-artnow

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• ... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

  George Eliot

  Art, Light, Mind

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

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• I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of life and death, meaning just the breathing and living and thinking experience-that's what art is.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, Thinking, Life And Death

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Mistake, Opportunity

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Art, Practice

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• Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

  Zanele Muholi

  Artist, Painful, Fine

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• I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.

  Michael Light

  Photography, Art, Silly

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Thinking, Fine

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• The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Museums, Clients

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Kindness, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.366

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• I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.

  Russell James

  Dream, Art, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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