Alain de Botton Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• A good half of the art of living is resilience.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Resilience, Half

• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

• In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, World, Devotion

  "What art museums should learn from Christianity". Article by Alain de Botton, www.abc.net.au. February 22, 2012.

• Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Promise, Wholeness

• A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Majority, Would Be

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.156, Vintage

• Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Philosophy, Majority

• One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Suffering, Important

• The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.

  Alain de Botton

  Dream, Art, People

  "Alain de Botton in quotes: 'The news promotes a toxic society of envy'" by Marta Bausells, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2014.

• If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Imagination, World

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

• Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Feelings, Might

• Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Choices, Might

• In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Philosophy

  Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.188, Penguin UK

• The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Knowing, Speak

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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