ART QUOTES III

quotations about art

Art quote

Art is a language that doesn't need to be translated.

AHMAD HARIRI

"How art is helping Syrian refugees keep their culture alive", The Guardian, March 2, 2016


Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C. S. LEWIS

On Stories and Other Essays in Literature

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The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

STEFAN ZWEIG

prelude, Paul Verlaine

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If you are not passionate in life, you can't be passionate in art.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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Art is memory's mise-en-scene.

LUIS BARRAGÁN

The Architecture of Luis Barragán


Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Whether it is the beautiful that brings to our hearts the love of truth and justice, or whether it is truth that teaches us how to find the beautiful in nature and how to love it, in either case art does a noble work. It drags out the soul from its everyday shell, and brings it under the spell of its own mysterious and wonderful power, so that a memory of this experience stays with the people, sustains them in their daily labors, and refines their minds.

HELENA MODJESKA

"Women and the Stage", The World's Congress of Representative Women

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While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

RAY BRADBURY

preface, Zen in the Art of Writing

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The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

PAUL PARK

A Princess of Roumania

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

LEO TOLSTOY

What Is Art?

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No art is possible without a dance with death.

KURT VONNEGUT

Slaughterhouse-Five

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The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.

JOHN BERGER

The Sense of Sight

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Keep doing what you like to do. That's all [art] is.

CORY ARCANGEL

interview with Stina Puotinen, Mar. 21, 2009


Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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I believe that economic prosperity and cultural wealth go hand in hand. This is why it is important to even further promote the cultural arts during times of economic slowdown.

OH SEUNG-JE

"All That Korean Art Is There for a Reason", New York Times, March 16, 2016


It was the job of art to bring true feelings alive. To shock people into awareness.

MICHAEL CRICHTON

Next

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Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Art, even as poetry, was to become not an escape from the narrowness of lived reality, but the overflow of intensified life.

ANNA BALAKIAN

Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute

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Art is becoming one of the indispensable factors influencing the organization of everyday life. It is present everywhere and nowhere. It is becoming a fluid. It stands outside all professions. It cannot be isolated, it cannot be worshipped, it cannot be converted into money. None of this is possible. It is irreversibly dissolved in the solution of burgeoning human existence.

MILAN KNIZAK

"Aktual Univerzity: Ten Lessons", Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings


Art is an organized response to what nature allows us to glimpse occasionally. Art sets out to transform the potential recognition into an unceasing one.

JOHN BERGER

The Sense of Sight

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