Art Is Quotes - Page 9

• Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Art, Reality

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• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Men, Hands

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Work, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• Art is the path of the creator to his work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Path

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.466, Library of America

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dust, Soul

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Art, Children, Doors

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

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• Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Passion, Safe Haven

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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  Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

  Taylor Swift

  Art, Important, Should

  " Taylor Swift takes a stand over Spotify music royalties" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.

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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Art, Design

  'What is Art?' (1898) ch. 19 (translated by Maude)

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• Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

  Hans Arp

  Mother, Art, Children

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• Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

  Warwick Thornton

  Art, White, Australia

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.

  Kim Anderson

  Art, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Interview with Kim Anderson: Material Matters". Sarasota Visual Art Interview, sarasotavisualart.com.

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• When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Art, Bored, Annoying

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

  Pierre Soulages

  Art, Opposites, Perspective

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Art, Luxury

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2010.

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• Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

  Voltaire

  Art, Secret, Knows

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• Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

  Paul Rand

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Atheist, Philosophy

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• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Interesting, Youth

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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• Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

  William Everson

  Art, Healing, Handmaids

  William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”

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• When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

  Kevin James

  Art

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• Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

  Scott Thompson

  Art, Gloss, Activism

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