Quotes about art
art jobs thinking
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
art short-life opportunity
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
art speak-less mind
In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.
art reading class
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.
art rocks feet
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
art eye acting
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
art enjoy-life want
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
art taken hands
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
art infinite should
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
art depth blind
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
art philosophy history
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
art philosophy history
All our knowledge is symbolic.
art men secret
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
art sight discovery
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
art law manifestation
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
art
Art will always be art.
art sight firsts
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
art power men
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.
art oratory littles
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
art doe determine
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
art men say-anything
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.
art nature
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
artist may publicity
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.. but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
art reality causes
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
art long mind
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
art hipster men
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
art expression individuality
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
art flying ruins
When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
art art-is mediators
Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
art patriotic
There is no patriotic art.
art lying men
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
art decay different
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
art thinking what-matters
What matters in art is not thinking but making.