Quotes about art
art culture creation
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus
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
art tears culture
On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.
art jobs stars
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.
artist unexpected feels
You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
art should
Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.
artist dots share
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
art nice world
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
art real parent
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
art simple thinking
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
art clouds shame
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
artist thinking meditation
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.
artist faces musician
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.
art simple differences
In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.
art empathy healthy
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
art way photographer
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter. Annie Parisse
artist shooting helping
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. Annie Leibovitz
artist stones rolling
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
artist awkward want
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
art photographer taking-pictures
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
artist vocabulary style
I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
artist one-day mystery
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.