Quotes about art
art new-york jobs
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. Anna Camp
art player light
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen! Ann Wilson
art want sides
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning. Andy Milonakis
art want ignored
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music. Andy Partridge
art ideas choices
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art Albert Camus
artist dabs definitions
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest. Albert Brooks
art couple laughter
The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
art cutting together
Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
artist lifetime deep-within
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
art philosophy thinking
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
art
Without freedom there is no art.
art divorce ideas
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
art simplicity scales
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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.
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.