Art Is Quotes - Page 11

• It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

  Richard Steele

  Art, People, Cunning

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.331

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• Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

  Sara Blecher

  Art, Persons, Subjective

  Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is because it somehow reflects us. And I think, ultimately, we're a tribal people by nature. We're not individualistic. We almost like to hear that there's other people in a worse state than us. Sometimes even more than we like hearing there are people in better states than us.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Selfish, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Eye, Beholder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Powerful, People

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

  Wong Kar-wai

  Art, Looks, Wow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Interesting, Addresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

  John Malkovich

  Art, Wall, Smell

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Art, Hacking, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

  Danger Mouse

  Art, Talking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Way, Violent

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

  Sophie Calle

  Art, Distance, Way

  Interview with Louise Neri, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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• To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mean, Men

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• The proper school to learn art is not life but art

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, School

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

  Kingsley Amis

  Art, Thinking, Elements

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• In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Past, Ideas

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Quality, Principles

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.133, Beacon Press

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• Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Lying, Ancient

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• The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Character, Thinking

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• A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Games, Serious

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• The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Art, Purpose, Ends

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• Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Clear

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• Chatter about art is almost always useless.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Useless, Chatter

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• Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

  Holland Cotter

  Art, Personality, Pushing

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