Quotes about art
art real men
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement. John Galsworthy
artist alive intention
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist. John Frusciante
art attention world
I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
art accepting art-is
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
art imagination optimism
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination. John F. Kerry
art school mean
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?
art order class
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. John Drinkwater
art men mood
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
art women searchers
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown. John Donne
art unique mathematics
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
art men passionate
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
art order broken
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency. John Dos Passos
art coffee tired
Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.
art writing men
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.
art pain husband
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.
art block past
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.
art race plowing
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
art kings war
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?
art women hate
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
artist perfect missing
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal. John Dunning
art school levels
I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.
art growing-up father
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
art people disappointing
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. John Ortberg
art jesus hate
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
art character quality
Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person. John Olsen
art paris people
The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.
art thinking together
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.
art mean self
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
art essence awareness
Art is the essence of awareness. John O'Donohue
art love-you love-is
You are like nobody since I love you" -Pablo Neruda This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person's individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it can decipher identity and destiny
artist silence sound
Everyone is an artist. Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible.
art words-of-wisdom courageous
Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown.
art father luck
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument. John Mortimer