Visual Art Quotes - Page 2

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  Yahoo Serious

  Movie, Art, Gambling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

  Laurie Anderson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

  Harry Seidler

  Artist, Age, Becoming

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• If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, Careers, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Museums, People

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• Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

  Will Self

  Art, Fall, Character

  "Constellation of Genius, 1922: Modernism Year One by Kevin Jackson - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Art, Miracle, Exaltation

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• All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Believe

  Source: nysmusic.com

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• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Lying

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• Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Artist, Symphony, Trying

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Memories

  "Looking Back" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2005.

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• I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

  Steve Mann

  Art, Childhood, Elements

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• It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Quality, Beholder

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.

  John Walford

  Art, Anorexia, Suffering

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• The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

  Dar Williams

  Art, Funny Things, Musician

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• I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank.

  Dani Shapiro

  Artist, Media, Envy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Thinking, Innovation

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, People, Ironic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Philosophy, Eye, Artist

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• Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Childhood, Stuff

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• Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

  Wayne McGregor

  Artist, World, Fit

  "Royal Ballet Live: Wayne McGregor on dance, the White Stripes and the web". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2012.

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• The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Men, Two

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• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  Ian Anderson

  Art, School, Tree

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