Quotes about art
art fate differences
And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. Albert Camus
art writing certain
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
art design triumph
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
art mistake thinking
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters- all that matters, really- is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest- women, art, success- is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
artist revolution birth
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
artist scorn true-artists
True artists scorn nothing.
art war men
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."
art doe reason
Art does not tolerate reason.
art mean men
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
art real criticism
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
art moving adventure
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
art meaning-of-life life-has-no-meaning
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
art ends insight
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
art responsibility men
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
art experts painting
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
art judging criticism
[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
art men order
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
artist able modern
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
art struggle artist
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
art design world
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
art culture creation
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
art confession art-is
A work of art is a confession.
art order dies
We have art in order not to die of life.
artist judging community
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
art sea giving
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
art hipster needs
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
art dark order
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
art art-is works-of-art
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
art work simple
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
art pain lying
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
art men lasts
Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
art would-be needs
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
artist people trying
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody. Amanda Palmer