Art Is Quotes - Page 8

• Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Art, Flower, Civilization

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• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Fear, Immature

  The Writing of Fiction (1925) ch. 1

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• All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Kindness, Survival

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mom, Mother, Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

  Emile Zola

  Art, Creation, Temperament

  My Hates (1866)

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• Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Blessing, Affirmation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• All art is a kind of confession.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Kind, Confession

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Art is born in attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Attention, Born

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.40, Souvenir Press

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• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Change, Beautiful, Art

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.285, OUP Oxford

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• Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

  Claude Bernard

  Witty, Art, Science

  Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.

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• It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Gaps

  Wilfried Dörstel, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Augenpunkt, Lichtquelle und Scheidewand: die symbolische Form im Werk Marcel Duchamps : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Witzzeichnungen von 1907 bis 1910 und der Radierungen von 1967/68”

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• Life is short and art is long.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Life Is Short, Long

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• All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Life, Spiritual, Art

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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• All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

  Aristotle

  Art, Artist, Concerned

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1800, Princeton University Press

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• Art is the highest form of hope.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Form, Highest

  Gerhard Richter, Christine Mehring, Jeanne Anne Nugent, Jon L. Seydl (2010). “Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972”, p.161, Getty Publications

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• Art is the signature of civilizations.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Art, Acceptance

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Nature, Environment

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• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Native American, Steps

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Men, Expression

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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