Quotes about 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. Andre Malraux
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.
artist discovery order
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
art wall book
An art book is a museum without walls.
art fate destiny
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
art world strive
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
artist building-up doe
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
art men culture
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
art block support
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. Andre Maurois
art book reading
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
art real effort
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
art men people
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.
art memories men
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
art literature may
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. Andrew Denton
art symbolism gestures
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. Andrew Eldritch
art acting roles
I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into. Andrew Dice Clay
art father names
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ." Ambrose Bierce
art lying philosophy
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
art names magic
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
art magic coins
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
art discovery america
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
art war products
War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
art two dimensions
picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
art definitions
art, n. This word has no definition.
art tasks discrimination
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
art entertainment ass
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.