Art Life Quotes - Page 2

• Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.

  Marianne von Werefkin

  Art, Unique, Soul

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• Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Challenges, Constraints

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• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

  J. Paul Getty

  Art, Real, Generations

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• Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.

  Eric Fischl

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Character, Dark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

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• As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Art, Men, Long

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• It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Doe, Crafts

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.132, Vintage

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