Quotes about art
art creativity emotional
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. Edward de Bono
art hero people
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
art healing years
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day. Edward Bach
art reality our-society
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. Edward Bond
art expression world
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.
art judgment term
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork. Edward Albee
art responsibility thinking
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
art successful play
If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].
art littles response
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
art land live-theatre
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?
art trying should
Art should never try to be popular.
art should dangerous
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
art people democracy
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
art succeed judgment
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
art thinking good-enough
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.
art reality people
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
art thinking people
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
art obligation
Art has an obligation to offend
art play theatre
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.
art animal essentials
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
artist color giving
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics. Edi Rama
art stars wine
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine Edgard Varese
art people gossip
A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music...
art age needs
In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.
art discrepancies-between progress
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.
art understanding treasure
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.
art clumsiness certain
I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.
art organization community
Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.
artist people belief
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
art expression world
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. Edith Hamilton
art making-money miley
Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art. Eddi Reader
art civilization mind
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness. Eckhart Tolle
artillery battalion field infantry korean operations proudly second served specialist states united war
I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.