Art Is Quotes - Page 15

• I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• The purpose of art is mystery.

  Rene Magritte

  Art, Purpose, Mystery

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• The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Art, Creating

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• We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Signatures, Existence

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• Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

  Jose Bernardo

  Life, Art, Powerful

  Jose Raul Bernardo (1997). “The Secret of the Bulls”, Simon & Schuster

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• Industry without art is brutality.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Brutality, Industry

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2007). “Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art”, p.17, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, Fate, Armistice

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• A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

  Christopher Walken

  Art, Men, Fire

  "Fictional character: Rayburn". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Suffering, Release

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Want, Making Money

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.156, Basic Books

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• Art is the great stimulus to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Stimulus

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.325, Penguin

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• The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

  Aristotle

  Art, Reality, Purpose

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• Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

  Doris Humphrey

  Art, Adventure, Excitement

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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• Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh

  Art, Giving, Substance

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• The basis of art is change in the universe.

  Matsuo Basho

  Art, Bases, Universe

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• Formal art is essentially rational.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Formal, Rational

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Blood, People

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• Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.

  Leopold Auer

  Art, Real, Technique

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• The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Hero, People

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• One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

  John Bayley

  Art, Kitsch, Function

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• Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Kitsch, Superficiality

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• Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

  Robert Musil

  Art, Air, Tools

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• If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Horse, Fall

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• Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Kings, Law

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• No great work of art is ever finished.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Great Work, Finished

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