ART QUOTES V

quotations about art

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Art is one of man's few serious activities.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY
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If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

FULKE GREVILLE

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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

LEO TOLSTOY

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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.

HOWARD ZINN

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

CORY ARCANGEL

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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

MICHELLE OBAMA

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Art is not Nature, art is Nature digested. Art is a sublime excrement.

GEORGE MOORE

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There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

CHARLES DICKENS

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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

W. H. AUDEN

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Art -- the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

JAMES THURBER

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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

J. D. SALINGER

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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

ANAIS NIN

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Realism and art cannot live together.

JENNETTE LEE

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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

JAMES BALDWIN

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We few, we happy few. No, we lucky few! Artists, wake up. Be gratified when our art is not taken by museums to rot in their storage vaults, probably never to be seen again. We should appreciate that we can and will survive without museums and the finely crafted words of those who will never know what it's like to create. Pick up some sand and run it through your fingers. Consider the long span of geological history and realize that our civilization won't last. All paintings and sculpture, including the great works of art, will be treated equally by time -- reduced to ashes and dust. This recognition puts me in my place but it is also a relief. Accepting mortality gives me the freedom to work without restraint, boundary or expectation.

BEN PERRONE

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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.

EDWARD ALBEE

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

OSCAR WILDE

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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

JEAN COCTEAU

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Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. The painting of Gustave Moreau is the painting of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

JAMES JOYCE

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