Art Is Quotes - Page 10

• Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Ends, Values

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

  Seth

  Art, Responsibility, People

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• Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Unique, Design

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• We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due.  Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.

  Seth

  Life, Art, Jobs

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• We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Imagination, Effort

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• The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Jobs, Wall

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• The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

  Adam Phillips

  Art, Secret, Want

  Adam Phillips (2010). “On Balance”, p.210, Penguin UK

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• Art is apotheosis;
  Often, the complaint of beauty.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Apotheosis, Complaints

  "Dancing of Sounds". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

  William Morris

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• ... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Exercise, Imagination

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

  Laura Esquivel

  Art, Produce, Know How

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Struggle, Making Money

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• Art is man's refuge from adversity.

  Menander

  Art, Adversity, Men

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• Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

  Jim Davis

  Art, Cat, Feelings

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• The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

  Robert Morgan

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Floating, Journalism

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• I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Believe, Magic

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• Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Order, Desire

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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• I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

  Henry Miller

  Art, World, Slave

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Judgement, Erotic

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Space, Quality

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Term, Aesthetic

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

  Jack London

  Art, Men, Conquer

  Jack London (2015). “The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature”, p.113, 谷月社

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