Quotes about art
art technology hands
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in. Aaron Koblin
art looks doe
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does. A. R. Rahman
art simple together
Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise. A. S. Byatt
art thinking important
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
art doe pleasure
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
art thee thou
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. Robert Owen
art believe love millions owning work
I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway. Ravi Shankar
art continuous instrument learning martial musical process reading teach
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. Sonu Nigam
art dedicate ensuring life longevity museums public save surgeons themselves trying works york
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view. Simon Van Booy
article became best contribute electorate knew labour minister prime punished refused
Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then all Labour MPs - for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps. Simon Hoggart
art default notion
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. Simon Schama
artist expression creative
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom. Abbie Cornish
art perception works-of-art
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. Abbas Kiarostami
art book museums
What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can direct us towards the original. I was recently at the Louvre Museum and I was filming people who were viewing the Mona Lisa. I noticed the number of ordinary people, astonished, mouths agape, standing still for long stretches looking at the work, and I wondered, "Where does this come from? Are these people all art connoisseurs?" They are like me; through the years, we've seen this work in our schoolbooks or art history books, but when we stand before the original, we hold our breath.
art teaching realization
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. A. Bartlett Giamatti
art thinking poetry
Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry. A. E. Housman
art stronger
Necessity is stronger far than art. Aeschylus
art needs remember
Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
art philosophy history
Art is far feebler than necessity.
art dysfunction adequate
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction. Adrienne Rich
art struggle social
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
art thinking dignity
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
art work creative
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
artist people honor
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
art wall years
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
art feminist culture
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!
artist self sentimental
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
art sex loneliness
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
art mean tables
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
art order effort
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
art skins body
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
art grief love-life
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
art gains recognition
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said. Agatha Christie