Tom Stoppard Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, America

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

• I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Moving, Doubt

• You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' (1967) act 1

• Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, Giving

• "The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Philosophy, History

• A circle is the longest distance to same point.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Philosophy, Distance

• It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Wall, Sculpture

• Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Mean, Artist

  "Travesties". Book by Tom Stoppard, June 10, 1974.

• You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Mind

  "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

• To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Skills

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

• Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Biographies, Subjects

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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