Quotes about art
art science vexation
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. Francis Bacon
art painting
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
art attitude people
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
art children stories
Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same. Francesca Lia Block
art stars wall
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors had OD'd on the pavement.
art writing rocks
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper. Forest Whitaker
art cheer made
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. Fran Lebowitz
artist people citizens
Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.
artist quality telling-the-truth
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
art crafts copycats
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.
artist cities television
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.
art old-things culture
Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
art organization league
I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.
artist interesting people
The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
art robins gorgeous
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form. George Vecsey
art home rainy-day
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts. George Washington Carver
art real people
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. George Washington
art war firsts
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
art pride equal
Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
art real hero
Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.
art war government
The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.
artist air people
Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say. George W. Bush
art life-is-short long
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. George Saunders
art artist should
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental. George Santayana
art study slips
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
art echoes art-is
Art is a delayed echo.
art history melancholy
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
art pride skills
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
art queens passion
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
art stupid moving
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.
art philosophy thoughtful
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
artist museums may
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
art imagination demand
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.