Quotes about art
art thinking people
I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives. Anna Deavere Smith
artist hats responsible
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
artist looks attention
Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
art skills simplicity
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
art fall reality
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
art thinking art-is
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
art commitment teach
Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
art circles people
They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.
art reality discipline
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
art self interesting
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. Anita Brookner
art sex dirty
That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail. Anita Loos
art needs chaos
Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system. Andrew Stanton
art inspire doe
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
art sublime lines
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange. Andrew Solomon
artist schedules world
Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because youre not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there. Andrea Anders
art real play
It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not. Andre Rieu
art discovery photographer
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
art communication mass
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. Andre Malraux
artist qualms-about confusion
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
artist rivals world
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
art feelings wish
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.
art ideas heritage
A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
art heirs firsts
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
art works-of-art ifs
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
art understanding may
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
art home creative
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
art past culture
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
art struggle dark
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it - Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.
artist world looks
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
art world metamorphosis
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
art world passing
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
artist feelings thrill
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
art names divine
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.