Mason Cooley Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Innovation, Imitation

• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

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  Art, Sex, Taken

• Art can make chaos seductive.

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  Art, Seductive, Chaos

• Every work of art changes its predecessors.

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  Change, Art, Works Of Art

• If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

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  Art, Law, Interesting

• Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Fun, Lying

• Art chooses its constraints.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Constraints

• In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Dresses

• A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

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  Art, Echoes, People

• The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Pedants, Nudity

• All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Art, History And Art

• Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Avant Garde, Care

• In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

  Mason Cooley

  Country, Art, Cousin

• In love as in art, good technique helps.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Art, Technique

• Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Totems, Lost

• We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Have Faith, Worship

• Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Money, Sex

• Art seduces, but does not exploit.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Doe, Seducing

• The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Inspire, Muse

• In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Age, Antiques

• People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Believe, People

• Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Criticism, Critics

• New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Sex, New York

• Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Self, Hypocrisy

• Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Purpose, Half

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